To the editor,

Gov. Kelly Armstrong’s new interim head of North Dakota Health and Human Services believes smartphones are the greatest threat to public health in our state. Really?

How about North Dakota’s fifth highest suicide rate or the highest rate of binge drinking in the United States? Or the shortage of mental health providers?

How about North Dakota having the second highest occupational death rate in the nation?

How about North Dakota having the highest measles rate in the nation this year, a high rate of whooping cough and failing rates of immunizations? Tuberculosis has been on the increase the past two decades, how about that? Do you remember North Dakota having the greatest nursing home COVID death rate?

How about cigarette smoking remaining the leading cause of preventab

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