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The Tobacco Reference Guide
by David Moyer, MD.


Chapter 17 Smokeless Tobacco

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Smokeless Tobacco: Baseball and Smokeless Tobacco

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Major League baseball teams once supplied free chewing tobacco to their players.

During the 1980's, an industry marketing campaign delivered free samples to team

clubhouses.

American Journal of Public Health 82:351, 1992

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Hall of Fame baseball player Rod Carew chewed tobacco from 1964 until he quit in

1992, when he had a growth in his mouth and spent more than $100,000 on remedial

dental work.

San Francisco Chronicle, February 4, 1993

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"Giants fans have reverently followed Barry Bonds' uncanny feats this season, and the

same fans have also watched Bonds repeatedly return to the bench and pull out a big

ol' wad of chewing tobacco. Baseball's best player, its most-watched role model,

enjoys a good chew. He's not alone."

San Francisco Chronicle, August 18, 1993

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Barry Bonds quit his smokeless tobacco habit in 1997.

San Francisco Chronicle, May 13, 1997

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During one game of the 1986 World Series, there were a total of 24 minutes on

camera of televised images of players and coaches chewing and dipping smokeless

tobacco.

NEJM, April 9, 1987, p. 952

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