| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 17 Smokeless Tobacco |
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| Smokeless Tobacco: Baseball and Smokeless Tobacco |
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| "...when I see kids with these little cans in their back pockets and know what baseball |
| has done to influence this, it makes me mad as hell." |
| Henry Aaron (National Spit Tobacco Education Flier) |
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| In a 1989 survey of major league baseball players, 45.6% were current smokeless |
| tobacco users. |
| Smokeless Tobacco or Health, p. 34 |
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| 35 to 40% of major league baseball players use chewing tobacco. 59% of a group of |
| major league player tobacco users who volunteered for oral exams had |
| tobacco-related mouth lesions, and 11% were serious enough to require a biopsy to |
| rule out cancer and the need for surgery. |
| USA Today, April 1, 1998, p. C3 |
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| The American Dental Association has called for a ban on chewing tobacco at major |
| league ball parks after a study showed that more than half of 91 National League |
| baseball players who use smokeless tobacco had oral precancerous lesions. |
| Time, July 25, 1994, p. 18 |
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| Babe Ruth smoked cigars and chewed tobacco, and died of throat cancer at age 53. |
| He had been chewing tobacco since the age of seven. |
| NEJM, May 12, 1988, p. 1281, and Baseball, Ken Burns, 1994 (PBS film) |
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