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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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