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Dr. C. Everett Koop, influential surgeon general, dies at 96
WASHINGTON -- Dr. C. Everett Koop, who as U.S. surgeon general in the 1980s led high-profile campaigns to highlight the dangers of smoking and to mobilize the nation against an emerging AIDS epidemic, has died. He was 96.
Koop died Monday at his home in New Hampshire, Susan Wills, a colleague at Koop's Dartmouth Institute, Told the Associated Press. The cause was not given.
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Dr. C. Everett Koop, influential surgeon general, dies at 96
WASHINGTON -- Dr. C. Everett Koop, who as U.S. surgeon general in the 1980s led high-profile campaigns to highlight the dangers of smoking and to mobilize the nation against an emerging AIDS epidemic, has died. He was 96.
Koop died Monday at his home in New Hampshire, Susan Wills, a colleague at Koop's Dartmouth Institute, Told the Associated Press. The cause was not given.
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