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.