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Selig says MLB will propose restrictions on smokeless tobacco
Boston Globe ^ | March 31, 2011 | Deborah Kotz

Posted on 03/31/2011 1:44:58 PM PDT by La Enchiladita

In the continuing debate over whether to ban smokeless tobacco from the MLB, Commissioner Bud Selig wrote in a letter today that he personally believes that "smokeless tobacco should be banned at the Major League level, but that is a subject that we are required to bargain over with the Major League Players Association."

That said, in the current round of bargaining to take place this year, the MLB will propose to restrict the use of smokeless tobacco "comparable to restrictions in place at the Minor League level" [which has an all-encompassing ban on tobacco products], wrote Selig in a letter to the president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, which waged a recent effort over the past few months to get chewing tobacco banned from baseball.

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KEYWORDS: baseball; chew; dip; mlb; nannystate
It's up to the players to be men and fight this.
1 posted on 03/31/2011 1:45:03 PM PDT by La Enchiladita
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To: La Enchiladita

Actually I prefer to see this come from the MLB than congress or something.


2 posted on 03/31/2011 1:48:02 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: La Enchiladita

If MLB bans chewing tobacco how are the players going to slide on the bases?


3 posted on 03/31/2011 1:49:55 PM PDT by 4yearlurker (I can't afford anymore hope and change!!!!)
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To: La Enchiladita

MLB should propose a restriction on Bud Selig. He is a crook and a POS. That he is still commissioner after all these years when he was clearly ineligible is beyond me. The Milwaukee Brewers deal with his daughter was BS and everyone knows it.


4 posted on 03/31/2011 1:53:32 PM PDT by Lazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)
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To: La Enchiladita
I think MLB should file suit against the various Native American tribes, seeking reparations for spreading the scourge of tobacco amongst its players.

< /sarc>

5 posted on 03/31/2011 1:55:25 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

LOL Never thought of it that way.

Our white women are all addicted to chocolate too.


6 posted on 03/31/2011 2:00:18 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek
"LOL Never thought of it that way."

It was #11 on my original Questions For Liberals.

7 posted on 03/31/2011 2:07:17 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: La Enchiladita
It should be restricted to only be used by MLB players, 18 years old or older, who wish to use it.

Stringent enough for me.

8 posted on 03/31/2011 2:29:11 PM PDT by Leo Farnsworth (I'm not really Leo Farnsworth.)
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To: La Enchiladita

Exactly! Tobacco is a legal product for ADULTS. These players are adults. Besides being “icky”, nobody has ever gotten cancer from being around someone chewing tobacco. So it boils down to “we don’t like MLB players using tobacco because it’s “icky”. BTW, unless they want to lose their licenses, stores don’t sell any tobacco products to people under 18. And you have to show, gasp, a legal ID to purchase it.


9 posted on 03/31/2011 2:34:04 PM PDT by boop ("Let's just say they'll be satisfied with LESS"... Ming the Merciless)
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To: cripplecreek; boop

I like what boop said in #9. We are talking about ADULTS here, living in a supposedly free country, where everything is over-regulated already. How does MLB help by acting as a nanny state government proxy?

MLB already concerns itself with too many things not directly related to baseball and the business of baseball.

When it comes to what they are SUPPOSED to be doing, they are negligent. We cannot unload the corrupt owner of the Dodgers because Selig will not intervene and force him to sell.


10 posted on 03/31/2011 2:47:20 PM PDT by La Enchiladita (Remember, Reflect, Renew: 2011, 10 years since 9/11. Never Forget.)
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To: La Enchiladita

Show me where in the Constitution you have the right to chew tabak?

Do I need to add the sarc?

Dammit, it’s for the chillun.


11 posted on 03/31/2011 2:52:51 PM PDT by swarthyguy (KIDS! Deficit, Debt,Taxes! Pfft Lookit the bright side of our legacy -America is almost SmokFrei!)
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To: La Enchiladita
Bill Tuttle, a Detroit Tiger outfielder when I was very small, is one of a number of older baseball players to develop cancer of the mouth:

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/30/sports/bill-tuttle-69-an-opponent-of-use-of-chewing-tobacco.html

12 posted on 03/31/2011 2:56:35 PM PDT by bwc2221
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I propose restrictions on Selig.


13 posted on 03/31/2011 2:56:57 PM PDT by isom35
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To: bwc2221
Bill Tuttle with a big chaw:

Bill Tuttle after contracting oral cancer:


14 posted on 03/31/2011 3:16:31 PM PDT by Huck (Palin on Libya: Definitely a no-fly zone, definitely regime change, won't rule out ground troops.)
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To: boop

These players are employees. MLB has every right to improve their image by eliminating this habit from the playing field.


15 posted on 03/31/2011 3:17:40 PM PDT by Huck (Palin on Libya: Definitely a no-fly zone, definitely regime change, won't rule out ground troops.)
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To: cripplecreek
Actually I prefer to see this come from the MLB than congress or something.

Selig is caving in to the thugs from Tobacco Free Kids, who get all of their multi million dollar funding from adults who use tobacco.

16 posted on 03/31/2011 3:23:30 PM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: La Enchiladita; Eric Blair 2084; CSM; metesky; Madame Dufarge; Mears; Tolerance Sucks Rocks; ...

PING

I’m torn here because of a couple of things.

First it is MLB pushing it, not the government, so normally I would say fine.

HOwever, they are caving into the thugs from Tobacco Free Kids who think they are a law unto themselves.

Finally, lots of “chewers” were on the band wagon of banning smoking both indoors and out ON PRIVATE PROPERTY, so I want to say payback’s a witch...........


17 posted on 03/31/2011 3:28:31 PM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: Gabz

I too am in your agreement with your torn thoughts on this matter.

Another thing is, TFK will be overjoyed if the MLB players chew on wads of Nicorette Gum, a position I find ridiculously hypocritical.

I say the go around is snus - an invisible product.
The MLB is not banning tobacco, per se - and YET, but chew...

What would be rich is if a couple of players wailed to the media that the chew ban made them start smoking cigarettes....


18 posted on 04/01/2011 4:41:28 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
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To: La Enchiladita; stylecouncilor

I´ve gotta say, a bunch of guys spitting tobacconized saliva every 5 seconds is a little digusting. And someone´s gonna come sliding in there? Yuck!


19 posted on 04/02/2011 6:30:13 PM PDT by onedoug (If)
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