52 Quotes by C. Everett Koop

By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years.

The best prescription is knowledge.

All of the western world raises its children uncircumcised and it seems logical that, with the extent of health knowledge in those countries, such a practice must be safe.

Your choice of diet can influence your long term health prospects more than any other action you might take.

Cigarette smoking is clearly identified as the chief, preventable cause of death in our society.

When a faith-healer commands God to perform a miracle, in the absence of a prayer that says, 'Thy will be done,' it is, as far as I am concerned, the most rank form of arrogance . . . The faith-healer Bosworth once said that faith makes God act. If you follow that line of reasoning God is in His heaven, but Bosworth rules the world!

A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.

In thirty-five years of medicine I have never seen one case where abortion was necessary to save a mother's life.

Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of the time