Word: koop
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...lifting a finger. "Put simply, he wants to renegotiate," says TIME's White House correspondent Jef McAllister. "And he can, because he took this issue on a year ago and it's clearly got his stamp on it. Now he's come down on the side of C. Everett Koop and David Kessler, who say the settlement doesn't do enough for children. That's very hard to argue with...
...House today to press his recommendation the Administration reject the $368.5 billion settlement between Big Tobacco and the state attorneys general because the deal would limit the government's power to regulate nicotine as an addictive drug. A Congressional commission headed by Kessler and former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, which had indicated its serious misgivings about the settlement two weeks ago, presented Al Gore with its recommendations for making the deal work. Especially upsetting to the Koop-Kessler commission is a provision forbidding a nicotine ban for 12 years and requiring a lengthy court hearing if the agency even...
...almost seems to look for ways to make them harder, move to where he's more comfortable. Instead of spending his summer telling voters why he wants to be President, he lit bonfires over abortion, tobacco, assault weapons, barked at American icons like Katie Couric and Dr. C. Everett Koop, and advocated reopening Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House one day after a bomb went off in Atlanta. He has stuck with a vow of silence to keep from getting in trouble, uncharacteristically refusing to answer reporters' campaign-trail questions at a time when even he admits most...
Smokers may have an easier time quitting if Dr. C. Everett Koop can convince a Food and Drug Administration advisory panel to make Nicorette gum available without a prescription. The former Surgeon General told the committee today that nicotine gum has proven its effectiveness in helping smokers quit. "If anyone can convince the FDA to do this, it's probably Koop, who is still seen as America's doctor," notes health care writer Janice Castro. "Until now, nicotine gum has been controlled for fear that users would reinforce their addiction to nicotine." At today's meeting, several medical experts said...
Former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, on a new crusade to slim down the one-third of Americans believed to be overweight, kicked off his "Shape Up America!" campaign at a White House ceremony today. At his side: First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, with whom he joined forces on health care reform. Launch of the non-profit Koop Foundation's effort was timed to follow a report from the Institute of Medicine describing the difficulties of shedding pounds and attacking commercial weight-loss programs for causing ineffective yo-yo dieting. But outside the White House, a group of marchers criticized...