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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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From 1986 to 1995, players and coaches in the World Series averaged 10.7 minutes

of visible chewing tobacco use on TV. (The record was 23.9 minutes in a 1986

game.)

US News and World Report, November 11, 1996, p. 16

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In a poll of a professional baseball organization, 43% were smokeless tobacco users,

and 37% of the year-round users had oral leukoplakia, a precancerous lesion.

Journal of Family Practice, June 1992, p. 713

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37% of child and teenage spit tobacco users have a father who also uses. Use in

NCAA college baseball players increased from 45% in 1985 to 57% in 1989.

Spit Tobacco and Youth, p. 19

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39 year old Brett Butler, the Los Angeles Dodger's starting center fielder and a former

tobacco chewer, was diagnosed with throat cancer in May 1996. He had 32 radiation

treatments over six weeks, and 50 lymph nodes as well as the cancer surgically

removed. He now has a scar from his right ear down his neck and across his throat.

He returned four months later with great fanfare to the Dodger lineup.

Sports Illustrated, September 16, 1996

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