The Nation - News from Oct. 2, 1985
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Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, citing medical evidence that “passive smoke” can increase the risk of cancer to nonsmokers, endorsed legislation that would restrict smoking in all federal buildings to designated areas. Koop told a Senate subcommittee that the bill, sponsored by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), “not only protects the nonsmoker but encourages the smoker to stop.” However, opponents of the measure, including representatives of the tobacco industry, argued that the no-smoking rules would be expensive to implement.
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