I don't think anything of him. I couldn't tell you the guy's name before I read the article about his leaving office.
I don't recall a single TV interview, any "Clapner" Elders-type scandal, any goofy Koop talking condoms cartoons for the kids....
Maybe he didn't have to go mainstream. Maybe he had some evil subversive underground control on our nation or something, but in my opinion he did what all Surgeon Generals should do. He was not seen and he was not heard.
With that said, I'm not a smoker, but smokers are fighting a battle against more than one man. This dude is just one cog in the huge anti-smoker wheel.
Well, by using his high powered title, he really stuck it to private businesses before he left office with his tirade about second hand smoke, the basta$d!
I never heard of this idiot either before this. Except he didn't do much with Katrina either. He was a total waste of tax payers money. I'm glad he is GONE!