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Always funny to see the kind of prestige the Surgeon General has in the US, and the weight that statements like this carry (like the one on smoking, too). Here
by bondarchuk 2y ago
Always funny to see the kind of prestige the Surgeon General has in the US, and the weight that statements like this carry (like the one on smoking, too). Here in NL I can't think of anyone in a similar position. (I'm not knocking it at all, to be clear)
- Dalewyn 2y agoMost people probably know the Surgeon General as that guy who always slaps his warning message that nobody reads on beer bottles, cigarette packs, etc.
- lenerdenator 2y agoIt goes beyond him. He's the head of one of the US government's eight uniformed services[0]. Like, in a sense, he's literally a general. [0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Public_Health_Service_Commissioned_Corps https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Public_Health_Se...