The Anonymous Widower

Charles Everett Coop And Richard Doll

Charles Everett Coop, who was Surgeon General by Ronald Reagan has just died.

He seems to have really thought about his job and didn’t allow his religious beliefs get in the way of good health. But like our own Richard Doll,l who proved the link between smoking and cancer, he let the facts and the statistics do the talking.

Interestingly, both were recipients of the Tyler Prize for Environmental Achievement.

Both though have a health lesson for us all, as Doll died at 92 and Koop did even better dying at 96.

So perhaps they not only looked at the facts and the statistics, but they acted upon them to prolong their own lives.

I always like this quote from Richard Doll.

Death in old age is inevitable, but death before old age is not.

I would put one up from Charles Everett Koop, but I can’t find something pithy and direct.

March 5, 2013 - Posted by AnonW | Health, World | Death, Smoking