Richard Carmona
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"Richard Henry Carmona" is an American nurse, physician, police officer, public health administrator, and politician. He was a Vice admiral (United States)/vice admiral in the United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps/Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and served as the seventeenth Surgeon General of the United States. Appointed by President of the United States/President George W. Bush in 2002, Carmona left office at the end of July 2006 upon the expiration of his term. After leaving office, Carmona was highly critical of the George W. Bush Administration/Bush administration for suppressing scientific findings which conflicted with the Administration's ideological agenda.

In August 2006, Carmona returned home to Tucson, Arizona. In November 2011, he announced he would seek the United States Democratic Party/Democratic Party's nomination for United States Senate in the hopes of succeeding outgoing United States Republican Party/Republican Senator Jon Kyl, despite being registered as a political independent (politician)/Independent. He lost to United States Republican Party/Republican challenger Congressman Jeff Flake.

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More teens are using marijuana at earlier ages, ... We really need to stop these trends.

Obesity is the terror within. Unless we do something about it, the magnitude of the dilemma will dwarf 9-11 or any other terrorist attempt.

When we walked through (Monday) we saw a large, metropolitan hospital ... and patients not only receiving care but receiving the social services that they needed.

[Hospitals were being constructed out of the wreckage.] Four or five days ago, they were empty, hollow shells with nothing, ... When we went through, we saw large metropolitan hospitals functioning as multidisciplinary, tertiary-care facilities in convention centers.

Americans are overwhelmed with the complexity of health information. We have hit a point of information overload and the public health message is being diluted.

It is a contaminated soup.

The emphasis should be on prevention and wellness and healthy living, ... But now we have to integrate how do we deal with these new threats of terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and have the appropriate health infrastructure in place to keep our communities safe.

We still have several thousand children a day who start smoking every single day in this country and half of them will go on to be chronic smokers.