Everett Koop was using his bully pulpit to rally public support for anti-smoking measures, such as in these remarks at a press conference: If you look at the biomedical literature of the past 30 years, you have to be impressed with the extraordinary amount of evidence that has been generated to prove the causal relationship between cigarette smoking and some two dozen disease conditions
Food & Drug Administration (FDA), expected this fall
Protracted Withdrawal Syndrome Protracted withdrawal syndrome associated with benzodiazepines is characterized by anxiety, cognitive impairment, depression, insomnia, formication, motor symptoms (e.g., weakness, tremor, muscle twitches), paresthesia, and tinnitus that persists beyond 4 to 6 weeks after initial benzodiazepine withdrawal
But he could still blow it big-time
Nicotine stimulates angiogenesis and promotes tumor growth and atherosclerosis