Advocacy Quote by C. Everett Koop

The right of smokers to smoke ends where their behavior affects the health and well-being of others.

— C. Everett Koop

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

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

The best prescription is knowledge.

— C. Everett Koop

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

A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

— C. Everett Koop

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

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

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

You can't talk of the dangers of snake poisoning and not mention snakes.

— C. Everett Koop

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

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