“A confluence of changes has recently prompted public health leaders to start throwing around phrases like ‘endgame’ and ‘tobacco-free generation.’ Acting U.S. Surgeon General Boris Lushniak last month released a 980-page report on smoking that pushed for stepped-up tobacco-control measures. His news conference was an unusually animated showing of anti-smoking bravado, with Lushniak nearly yelling, repeatedly, ‘Enough is enough!’ ‘I can’t accept that we’re just allowing these numbers to trickle down,’ he said, in a recent interview with the AP. ‘We believe we have the public health tools to get us to the zero level.'”
http://miami.cbslocal.com/2014/02/09/experts-increasingly-contemplate-end-of-smoking/
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