Ex-FDA Tobacco Head Brian King Joins Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to build a tobacco-free N.B.

New Brunswick is at an historic crossroads. With final court approval of the national tobacco lawsuit settlement, our province will receive $614 million — including an initial payment of $147 million. This is a landmark moment. But with this opportunity comes a profound responsibility: to ensure that what tobacco has cost us — in lives, in health, and in dollars — never happens again.

Ex-FDA Tobacco Head Brian King Joins Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids

Dr. Brian King is a man some tobacco harm reduction (THR) advocates love to hate. They felt no sorrow when, on April 1, he was notified of his removal as the director of the United States Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Tobacco Products (CTP). One of thousands of casualties of the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services cuts, King had widely been seen by THR proponents as obstructing the authorization of products…