[bondarchuk]

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)

[lenerdenator]

It 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_Se...

[Dalewyn]

Most people probably know the Surgeon General as that guy who always slaps his warning message that nobody reads on beer bottles, cigarette packs, etc.