By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years. — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
The American ideal is not that we all agree with each other, or even like each other, every minute of the day. It is rather that we will respect each other's rights, especially the right to be different, and that,… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others. — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
I might be better able to help parents of dying children, but for quite a while I felt less able, too emotionally involved. And… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
The health care industry can play a great role in this by being aware of the fact that these children form perhaps the most… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days. — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
I'd like to say let your kids go out and play. Then I'd say you're not going to do that are you? Make your… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes. — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
Risks I think are the thing that make life important and everything that you and I do is risk vs. benefit. Is there a… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
That is why we are working with these various groups that have volunteers. We can get a lot of these things done. Nobody has… — C. Everett Koop Copy Share Image
