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In 2011, at least a third of middle school and high school students who smoked cigars used flavored little cigars. Six states - Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Wisconsin - already have youth cigar smoking rates that are the same or higher than youth cigarette smoking.

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Health is correlated with quality of life. If you get regular physical activity, have social connections, control your cholesterol, keep your blood pressure at a normal level, don't smoke - these things can make an enormous difference not only in how long you live, but how much you enjoy your life in those years.

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If we vaccinate well, if we increase those vaccination rates, we can stop measles just as we stopped it before.

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Over and over, nature shows that it's a really tough adversary. That's why it's important that we invest in laboratories, disease detectives, research, mosquito control, the public health system around the world to find, stop, track, prevent health threats.

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Tobacco marketing often reaches children and youth and entices them to start using tobacco while they are still at an impressionable age. Nearly four out of five high school cigarette smokers will become adult smokers, even if they intend to quit in a few years. By the time they want to quit, they're hooked.

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People have a misconception that the tobacco epidemic is a thing of the past. Tobacco still kills more Americans than any other cause.

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Vaccines and antibiotics have made many infectious diseases a thing of the past; we've come to expect that public health and modern science can conquer all microbes. But nature is a formidable adversary.

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Our progress against malaria is impressive. But vigilance remains a critical ingredient to protect the health of all people.

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Vaccination is the single most important step people can take to protect themselves from influenza.

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I loved clinical practice, but in public health, you can impact more than one person at a time. The whole society is your patient.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Public Servant

Born: Unknown

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