Former Surgeon General, C. Everett Koop, Dies at 96

Breitbart writes, C. Everett Koop, who served as Surgeon General from 1981 to 1989 primarily under President Ronald Reagan, died at his home in Hanover, New Hampshire on Monday at the age of 96. A pediatric surgeon, Koop was perhaps best known for his candid discussions about AIDS, about the ways the disease did--and did not--spread, and his warnings about the dangers of smoking, including second-hand smoke. Through his frank discussions about disease prevention, he raised the previously low-profile post of Surgeon General to what he termed “the health conscience of the country.” Though an evangelical…

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