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FDA Official Talks Tobacco Regulation in Kansas

An e-cigarette (Flickr Photo by Ramsey Mohsen)

Mitchell Zeller, director of the Center for Tobacco Products at the Food and Drug Administration.The man in charge the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s new effort to regulate tobacco products is in Wichita today (THUR). Mitch Zeller is speaking at the Kansas Public Health Association’s fall meeting about how his agency is helping to reduce tobacco use, smoking in particular. There are more than 470,000 adult smokers in Kansas. And thousands of kids pick up the habit each day. Jim McLean, of the KHI News service, spokes to Zeller ahead of his trip and filed this report.


 

Bryan Thompson has been KPR's Health Reporter since 2000. He's a lifelong Kansan, and a graduate of Wichita State University. He's been involved in radio news longer than he'd care to admit, serving as news director at stations in El Dorado, Liberal, and Salina before joining KPR. He and his wife, Cindy, are the parents of six outstanding children--one of whom now looks down on them from above. In his spare time, Bryan enjoys music and sports.