title: Reagan, Clinton, tobacco, and children: an interview with C. Everett Koop.
abstract: At eighty-seven years of age, former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop has an extraordinary perspective on health and medicine in America. He reflects on child health from his thirty-five years as a pediatric surgeon; AIDS from his position as Surgeon General at the outset of the epidemic; Presidents Reagan and Clinton, with whom he worked extensively; and smoking from his long battle first in government and then later as public antagonist to what he sees as the duplicitous and deceptive "killer" industry: tobacco.
authors.forename: C Everett
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Koop
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome; D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002669:Child Welfare; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D008329:Managed Care Programs; D011057:Politics; D011320:Primary Health Care; D012907:Smoking; D019460:Tobacco Industry / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D014481:United States