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...Surgeon General C. Everett Koop recently said he would not be surprised if those who smoke in 1995 are required to light up out of doors. Officials of the General Services Administration, the Federal Government's housekeeping arm, evidently decided to do their part in making that prediction come true about nine years early. Last week they proposed a near total ban on smoking in 6,800 buildings owned or leased by the GSA, beginning in the fall...
Smokers might take heart from, of all people, U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. A vehement campaigner against smoking, Koop released a study last week that among other things detailed what other governments in other times have done. In 16th century Japan, according to Koop, tobacco users were jailed, while in 17th century China anyone possessing the offending weed could be beheaded. All things considered, the restrictions against smoking today hardly seem dire...
Weinberger ruled last week, despite the opposition of Surgeon General Dr. C. Everett Koop, that cigarettes will not be removed from the list of items sold to military personnel at cut-rate prices. Tobacco products are sold at discounts of up to 35 percent at commissaries and military exchanges...
...Reagan supports school prayer, and antiabortion legislation and several of his appointments have gratified the religious right. Among them: William Bennett, a Roman Catholic who backs religious day schools, as Secretary of Education; former Moral Majority Lobbyist Robert Billings as Assistant Secretary of Education; Pro-Life Presbyterian C. Everett Koop as Surgeon General...
Surgeon General Everett Koop has announced the Administration's revision of the "Baby Doe" regulations governing some 6,800 hospitals that receive federal funds. Now they must post notices at nurses' stations on each pediatric, maternity and nursery floor stating that failure to give handicapped infants essentially the same quality of care as the nonhandicapped is illegal. The regulations were prompted by a Bloomington, Ind., case last year, when a child born with Down's syndrome was denied surgery and nourishment, and died. In April, a federal judge struck down the original Health and Human Services Department...