Lecture Vol. 9 -#13 September 4,1986 Cover _

Address

By

C. Everett Koop, MD, ScD

Surgeon General

U.S. Public Health Service

And
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Presented at the Panel on Smoking and Health
John F. Kennedy School of Government/Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
September 4, 1986

This lecture is identical to the one that I gave on May 23, 1986 at the Conference on Smoking in
the Workplace, Glen Ellyn, Illinois and at a similar conference at Hasbrouck Heights, New
Jersey.

The lecture will not appear following this introduction, but I wanted to make it clear that this was
the big occasion celebrating Harvard’s 350" Anniversary and the 5 0" Anniversary of the J.F
Kennedy School. I tried to bring that down to the audience by pointing out that it wasn’t such a
long time ago, because that was only back to great-great-great-great-great-grandparents and
probably most of the audience have known two or three great-grandparents in the family or in
their community. They were contemporaries of Brahms and Tolstoy, of Louie Pasteur and
Robert Koch. So that wasn’t so long ago.

What I wanted to explain was how much had happened in medicine and health across those
generations and how much we’ve learned that could help our own generation to be a little bit
healthier and live a little bit longer as far as smoking is concerned.