Chief of the Public Health Service of the US (under the Department of Health and Human Services). Statements on tobacco (now printed as a warning on all cigarette boxes), physical fitness, diet, AIDS and other issues have made this a moral and political position, turning Surgeon Generals like C. Everett Koop into public figures. The consequences of politicization were also apparent in the forced resignation of Clinton appointee Jocelyn Elders (1933–), the first woman and African American to hold the post. Her views on guns, legalizing drugs, sexuality and sex education proved too controversial for the staid vision of a healthy America.