In time, the goal is to eliminate smoking altogether as a public health problem.
Centuries later in Paris, catacombs emerged as a creative and discreet solution to a dire public health problem.
Other diseases, such as serious depression, are also likely to increase substantially, creating a major public health problem.
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health said obesity was primarily a public health problem not a child protection issue.
They say the high rates emphasise the need to treat adolescent suicide as a major public health problem requiring urgent intervention.
Dr Charlie Tonson, chairman of the Royal College of Physicians renal medicine committee, said chronic kidney disease was an important public health problem.
The new FDA plan is the latest step in a multi-agency Federal effort to address prescription drug abuse, a major public health problem in the United States.
And we have actually beefed up our investment and support of prevention, because we have to treat this as a public health problem here in the United States, not just a law enforcement problem.
Our refusal to talk about violence as a public health problem with known (or knowable) risk factors keeps us from helping the young men who are at most risk and, of course, their potential victims.
This begins with the acknowledgement that our drug problem is a public health issue, not just a law enforcement issue.
Fortunately, a significant portion of Obamacare is dedicated toward reducing the impact of this big problem by promoting prevention and public health and rebuilding our primary care system.
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It is a stark warning for both the public and the Department of Health whose job it is to tackle the problem.
"Obesity is a nationwide problem, and all over the United States, public health officials are wringing their hands saying, 'oh, this is terrible, '" Mayor Bloomberg told The New York Times.
Public health minister Dawn Primarolo said a simple lack of knowledge is often the problem.
New figures commissioned by BBC Wales and produced by Public Health Wales Observatory shed some light on the more serious end of the problem.
But the problem is they're making it the centrepiece of public health, whereas it is the wider conditions that actually shape health and behaviour, including taxation, education and improving self-esteem.
"Whether it was on crime or the crisis in the public health system, Mbeki never had the humility to acknowledge there was a problem, " wrote Prof Habib, in the Sunday Independent newspaper.
But when it comes to addressing obesity, the most prominent public health activists are intent at making it into a war, rather than a solvable problem.
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So it's easy to say, well, this is - the problem is, those people, as opposed to having a public-health strategy that starts from their subjective reality and recognizes that if we want to have a competent prevention that will affect all of us, since we're all living here together, then we have to get beyond that.
It is possible that public health infrastructure was underfunded in the past, Brookmeyer said in March, but it is a problem that can be solved.
Private providers everywhere are vulnerable to this perverse incentive, but in America, where most health care is delivered by the private sector rather than by salaried public-sector staff, the problem is worse than anywhere else.
In each case, the signature was the worst case scenario and the fact that public health officials were too careful not to downplay the risk for fear that they would get blamed if the problem mushroomed.
Part of the problem in the public discourse is that few people alive today can even remember a free market in health care, so its impossible for some even to imagine.
"BMI isn't the problem, " said Walter Willett, chair of the department of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health.
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