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Media Alert
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 1st, 2025
Contact: Colorado Black Health Collaborative (CBHC) | [email protected] | 720.579.2126
Your Right to Know – The 2024 U.S. Surgeon General’s Report
Press Release by: Colorado Black Health Collaborative
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Colorado Black Health Collaborative (CBHC) is launching a Campaign Series – “Your Right to Know” to help ensure the Community is informed. This important Report was removed from the Center for Disease and Control Prevention (CDC) this year. In the Report, Vivek H. Murthy, M.D., M.B.A., the U.S. Public Health Service Surgeon General of the United States shared, “As a father of two young children, few things are more important to me than ensuring they have the best possible chance of good health and a bright future. I want this for all our kids. I believe the vast majority of Americans feel the same about our sacred responsibility to protect our kids. Nine in 10 adults who smoke began smoking as youth (USDHHS 2012, 2014). Children should not have to worry about a multibillion-dollar commercial tobacco industry that profits at the expense of their health. The time is now to accelerate a whole-of-society effort to reach the tobacco endgame: a world in which zero lives are harmed by or lost to tobacco use. By driving down the appeal, availability, and addictiveness of tobacco products, we can make this more than just a possibility. We can make it a reality. Can we summon the moral courage as a nation to do so, for one another, for our children, and for generations to come?”
CBHC continues the important work to tackle menthol in the Black Community advancing our mission to achieve health equity in Colorado’s Black Community. This Report provides vital information impacting our health and well-being, confirms the ongoing destructive tactics of the Tobacco Industry marketing mentholated tobacco-nicotine products.
CBHC believes it is imperative that you have direct access to the 2024 U.S. Surgeon General’s Report because you have every right to know.
Click Here to Access the 2024 U.S. Surgeon General’s Executive Summary
Click Here to Access the 2024 U.S. Surgeon General’s Full Report
To learn more about the Menthol Tobacco Social Injustice, reach out to us @ [email protected].
“Your Right to Know Just for the Health of it!”
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