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...Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop endorsed an ordinance proposed yesterday by two City Council members which would regulate smoking in Cambridge's public areas...
...Koop, who spoke earlier in the day at a Harvard symposium on the dangers of smoking, joined City Councillors David E. Sullivan and Sheila T. Russell in a formal presentation of the proposed ordinance...
Declaring that "history is on the side of the non-smoker," Surgeon General Everett Koop yesterday told an audience of about 60 at the Kennedy School of Government that smoking may disappear in the United States...
Surgeon General C. Everett Koop is an outspoken enemy of tobacco consumption, advocating a "smoke-free society by the year 2000" as a major U.S. health goal. It was no surprise, then, that Koop planned to testify before a House subcommittee last week in support of legislation that would ban all advertising for tobacco products. But the day before he was to appear, the Washington Post reported that Donald Regan, the President's chief of staff, had barred Koop from testifying. The White House defended the action by saying that his presence on a panel that was to include such...
...impress California Democrat Henry Waxman, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment. He charged that the Administration was actually opposed to the legislation, since it would hurt businesses that benefit from the tobacco industry's annual expenditures of $2 billion on advertising and promotion. Koop has now offered to appear in two weeks, if other Administration officials from the Federal Trade Commission and the Justice Department also come along to offer their views on the proposed bill...