2024 Surgeon General's Report- Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disease and Death: Addressing Disparities

On November 19th 2024, the Surgeon General released a new report titled Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disease and Death: Addressing Disparities, the 35th tobacco-related Surgeon General’s Report published since 1964. Pamela Ling, MD, MPH, Director of the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, and Maya Vijayaraghavan, MD, MAS, Fellowship Co-Director of the UCSF Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, were contributing authors on this report. 

Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disease and Death: Addressing Disparities assesses health disparities related to tobacco use. While the US has made progress in reducing tobacco use in the overall population, advancements have not been equally distributed across all US population groups. 

Disparities in commercial tobacco product use, exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke, exposure to marketing of tobacco products and smoking-related health outcomes persist by race and ethnicity, level of income, level of education, sexual orientation, gender identity, type of occupation, geography, and behavioral health status. 

The full report can be read online here.