OHSU Knight Cancer Institute director

Brian Druker, M.D.

OHSU Knight Cancer Institute director

Brian Druker, M.D., is director at the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute.

Time to raise Oregon’s tobacco sales age to protect kids, save lives
By Christopher Friend May 08, 2017
Each year, 1,800 Oregon kids become new daily smokers. That’s five kids a day who start a lifetime of deadly addiction that increases their risk for cancer, heart disease and early death. Unless current smoking rates decline, 68,000 Oregon kids alive today will die prematurely from tobacco-related illnesses.