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The General's Warning: Koop Vows to Win the War against Smoking
Date:
October 1986
Description:
In this article Koop described how his attitudes towards smoking formed during his youth and over the course of his professional life as a surgeon, and how he pursued his anti-smoking campaign as a member of an administration friendly towards business, including tobacco companies.
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