The acting US surgeon general said a thinner Santa would be a better role model for kids in a land battling obesity.
Every surgeon general since Terry has campaigned against smoking.
Smoking rates remained stubbornly high for decades after the US surgeon general officially declared cigarettes a health risk in 1964.
But the tide turned with a surgeon general's report in 1990 that publicized the harmful effects of trans fat.
No Smoking signs started cropping up more frequently after the surgeon general endorsed bans on smoking in public places back in 2006.
The surgeon general had determined that cigarette smoking is dangerous to your health.
Then he fired the secretary of the Army and forced out the Army's surgeon general.
They also acknowledge that the U. S. surgeon general has determined that smokeless tobacco use is addictive.
They took me to the surgeon general's office.
When the surgeon general issued a “call to action” on childhood obesity in 2001, about 13 percent of children were obese, a more than two-fold increase from the previous 20 years.