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Who was Dr. Charles Everett Koop?

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Dr. Charles Everett Koop, surgeon general under President Ronald Reagan, boldly led the United States on controversial health issues such as smoking, abortion, infanticide, and acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).

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