The Nation - News from Sept. 14, 1989
Surgeon General C. Everett Koop criticized U.S. tobacco marketing at home and abroad, backing a bill to keep cigarette machines away from minors and declaring America is not respected overseas “because of the manner in which we export disease and death.” Koop, in what he said would be his last appearance as surgeon general on Capitol Hill, testified at a House subcommittee hearing called by anti-smoking activists in Congress. During the hearing, Reps. Chester G. Atkins (D-Mass.) and Thomas A. Luken (D-Ohio) took aim at possible Bush Administration action against Thailand’s ban on tobacco advertising, comparing the case to the British East India Co.’s efforts to develop Asian opium markets in the 1800s.
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