Surgeon General Murthy Issues Smoking Report
(Washington, DC) -- Cigarette smoking rates are the lowest they've ever been, but Surgeon General Vivek Murthy says there's more that needs to be done. The nation's top doc says nearly 500-thousand people die in this country every year because of a tobacco-related illness. His new report out today calls for lowering nicotine levels to non-addictive levels, predicting it could prevent eight million deaths by 2100. It also calls for banning menthol cigarettes, which he says are disproportionately used by minority groups.