| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 17 Smokeless Tobacco |
| tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour |
| Smokeless Tobacco: Baseball and Smokeless Tobacco |
| globalink (artefact pour saut de ligne) |
| 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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