Tom Frieden

Health taxes on tobacco, alcohol, sugary drinks, junk food.

Tobacco regulation, including denicotinizing tobacco, which the FDA has the authority to do.

Alcohol prevention, including strong warnings, reductions of alcohol density, and sales of alcohol, hours and places of sale.

Front-of-pack warning labels.

Chile, the country of Chile, did this, and it's a hugely successful way of improving nutrition.

reducing sodium and promoting potassium-enriched low-sodium salts, regulating PM2.5 soot, having gun safety regulations.

Gun violence is one of the major reasons Americans live shorter lives on average than Europeans.

in medical care, change the way we pay.

So the health care system will make more money if they keep people healthy.

Right now, the health care system makes more money if people get sick.

And in public health, we need better data systems, faster action, closer alignment with realities, enough funding, and getting back to scientific independence.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's what I want to get to also.

Just one point about mandates.

It's one thing to mandate individuals.

It's another to regulate companies.

And, you know, I think mandates on individuals should be awfully rare.

I don't think we should have been mandating vaccination, for example, during COVID.

But mandating or regulating companies so they don't hurt people, that's not about taking away personal liberty.