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...assumption that every physician knows the difference "between prolonging the act of dying and protecting the act of living," as Surgeon General Koop asserts, is fallacious. As a registered nurse, I have come in contact with doctors who could not perceive the difference because the choice is not always clear. Physicians possess no more of the godlike qualities than the rest...
Critics fear that the new federal regulations go so far that they would require the maintenance of all handicapped newborns, no matter how monstrous or minimal their lives may be. "Withholding fluids or nourishment at any time is an immoral act," says U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop flatly. The new rules may thus make doctors more hesitant to take what many had considered the more humane course...
...likely as nonsmokers to die of cancer. The risk faced by female smokers is 30% greater than nonsmokers and still rising. An estimated 430,000 people will die of cancer in the U.S. this year, and the report charges smoking will lead to 129,000 of those deaths. Tobacco, Koop said at a press conference, "is responsible for some 340,000 deaths in this country annually," not only from cancer but from heart trouble, chronic lung and respiratory diseases, and other ailments. Previous reports have blamed smoking by pregnant women for miscarriages, premature births and birth defects. Discussing the effects...
...lives. This year it is expected to kill 111,000. "It is estimated that 85% of lung cancer mortality could have been avoided if individuals never took up smoking," the report says. "An epidemic among men has existed for many years; now it is being repeated among women," Koop adds. Reason: lung cancer may take decades to develop, and women began taking up smoking in large numbers only after World War II. Lung cancer, in fact, is likely soon to replace breast cancer as the leading cause of cancer death among women. "If it were not for lung-cancer deaths...
...Koop, who was a prominent Philadelphia pediatric surgeon before he became Surgeon General last year, says that the Reagan Administration backs the report and is committed to alert people to the hazards of smoking. In that effort he is counting mostly on the public's common sense. Says he: "If I were a smoker of a pipe, cigar or cigarette and were reasonably intelligent and had read this report, I would long since have quit." Indeed, Koop once did smoke a pipe, but, setting a good example, he gave it up ten years ago. -ByAnastasia Toufexis. Reported by Jeanne...