Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disparities and Death - A Report of the Surgeon General - Key Findings

Eliminating Tobacco-Related Disease and Death: Addressing Disparities—A Report of the Surgeon General is the 35th tobacco-related Surgeon General’s Report published since 1964. In 1998, the Surgeon General issued the report, Tobacco Use Among U.S. Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups, which was the first report to exclusively examine racial and ethnic disparities in tobacco use. The 2024 report documents the persistence of disparities in tobacco product use and exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke and acknowledges poverty and discrimination as key drivers of disparities. The scientific evidence in this report supports the following key findings.