Surgeon General Koop's "SMOKE FREE SOCIETY BY 2000" never materalized, due to the never ending tobacco and smoking/vaping related promotions and sales by the tobacco industry. Pursuing the Smoke-Free Dream Surgeon General C. Everett Koop's impossible dream - a smoke-free society by the year 2000... Archives | 1984 https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/28/opinion/pursuing-smoke-free-dream-surgeon-general-c-everett-koop-s-impossible-dream.html