C. Koop Quotations

The Action Plan provides a blue print for getting proven cessation treatment to literally every smoker in America who wants to quit. This can have enormous benefit for everyone-adding years of life for former smokers and reducing healthcare costs for all Americans. Making the tobacco companies pay for this is only proper.

We haven't as a city determined what our priorities are going to be. We have a lot of needs all over the city, including the southern sector. We have to determine how to meet those needs and balance that with how much money DART has.

Today, only a small percentage of consumers are aware of clinical trials as a health care option, both from a standpoint of receiving a high level of care and in helping develop the latest products to treat debilitating or life-threatening diseases,

Far North Dallas folks would like to see it be light rail, and to have stations that are easy to get to and that serve the area.

Except for smoking, obesity is now the number one preventable cause of death in this country. Three hundred thousand people die of obesity every year,

This is astonishing. We certainly will look at this, and we have to get a handle on it.

It will absolutely be a feather in the cap for the city.

These are good initial steps. I suspect there are more to come.

The game will be played in what's going to be our Times Square it's going to be a crown jewel. What a showpiece it'll be.