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Charles Everett Koop (October 14, 1916 – February 25, 2013) [1] [2] was an American pediatric surgeon and public health administrator who served as the 13th surgeon general of the United States under President Ronald Reagan from 1982 to 1989.
Feb 25, 2013 · Koop died Monday at the age of 96. The PBS NewsHour interviewed former Surgeon General, Dr. C. Everett Koop, on the anniversary of the first surgeon general's report on smoking.
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Feb 26, 2013 · Dr. C. Everett Koop, whose anti-smoking and abortion views made him arguably the most influential and recognizable surgeon general in history, died at the ag...
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Videos. America's Family Doctor (C. Everett Koop) Dr. Koop stepped down as Surgeon General in 1989, and returned to Dartmouth, his alma mater, where he continued his lifelong mission to educate the public on health issues in his role as Senior Scholar of the Koop Institute.
Mar 1, 2013 · Former US Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, MD, ScD, who died at the age of 96 years, transformed his office into a powerful platform for educating the public and reshaping the national dialogue on major public health challenges, from tobacco use to HIV/AIDS.
- Asa Tapley, Andrew B. Bindman
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Apr 24, 1989 · When Koop found out that the tobacco companies had fought hardest over the years against the Government’s calling nicotine addictive, he stated high up in his Surgeon General’s report that...
Mar 4, 2013 · Liberal Democrats in Congress worried Koop would use the surgeon general's bully pulpit on public health issues as a de facto church pulpit to push a conservative religious agenda on the...
