Dr. Charles L. Brown Jr., who was the New Orleans Saints' first team physician and an anti-tobacco advocate who helped engineer passage of a law banning smoking in Louisiana's offices and restaurants, died Saturday (Jan. 14) at his New Orleans home. He was 87.
Dr. Brown, a lifelong New Orleanian who earned undergraduate and medical degrees at Tulane University, had two careers. He had a private practice as a hematologist and oncologist until 1998. Shortly after retiring that year, he joined the faculty of the School of Public Health at LSU Health Sciences Center in New Orleans.