The World Health Organization has designated today (TUE) as World No Tobacco Day—a day to call attention to the fact that tobacco is responsible for killing one in every ten adults worldwide. As Kansas Public Radio’s Bryan Thompson explains, while health officials are trying to discourage tobacco use, the tobacco companies are test marketing a new form of their product in Kansas.
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.