MLB Needs to Ban Chewing Tobacco

(4 pm. – promoted by ek hornbeck)

Cross posted from The Stars Hollow Gazette

The recent death of retired San Diego Padres baseball player Tony Gwynn from salivary gland cancer has sparked a conversation about the use of chewing tobacco. Gwynn attributed his cancer to dipping tobacco, a habit that he picked up in 1981. Although, there are no studies linking tobacco to salivary gland cancer, as with smoking tobacco, it is considered a risk factor. ESPN sportscaster Keith Olbermann thinks that it’s past time that chewing tobacco use is banned from baseball. Luckily for those of you in other countries or no ties to MLB, you can still enjoy products such as this thunder snus!

Banning the habit would be a good idea, not just as a way of remembering Tony Gwynn but protecting players health and as an example for the fans of the game.