Posted on 09/09/2015 12:13:41 PM PDT by Boomer
The city of Boston has banned chewing tobacco at all baseball stadiums, including Fenway Park, and will slap players with a $250 fine if they violate the ban.
(Excerpt) Read more at freebeacon.com ...
The ban prohibits the use of smokeless tobacco on all ball fields where professional, collegiate, high school or amateur sports are played. Violators will face a $250 fine.
Aside from the fine, Fenway will be riddled with no dipping signs as a result of the ban. Signs will be posted in “dugouts, bullpens, training rooms, locker rooms, press boxes, television and radio broadcast booths, and bathrooms throughout the sports venues.”
Boston Red Sox Manager John Farrell has called chewing tobacco a baseball “tradition,” and slugger David Ortiz dips every time he steps up to the plate.
Mayor Marty Walsh said he signed the ban “for the children.”
New Fenway Park. Coming to New Hampshire in 2018.
“For the children”
Every time I see that phrase all kinds of red flags pop up in my mind.
I gave up tobacco a long time ago but geez... chew and baseball have gone together forever.
Notice this kind of thing is happening in extreme blue states and areas within those blue states.
So this wasn’t for custodial (cleaning up the mess) reasons, but for nanny reasons?
By the way... when the state pays for your health care, the state can d**n well force you to stop smoking, chewing, overeating, etc.
Idiots. If you really want to be a nanny state, go after ballpark food and drinks - THAT would be for the children.
“Boston becomes the second city after San Francisco to approve such a ban”
The 2 biggest left wing toilets in America.
Los Angeles City Council banned ‘smokeless tobacco’ at Dodger Stadium just yesterday...
That should make it easier for the Sox to find talent - excepting the defectors from Castro and Obama’s Cuba, of course.
I put a chaw in and spit twice and then no more for however long I keep it in, catch me if you can nanny staters.
Don’t worry our mayor Marty Walsh wants to make Boston a sanctuary city for the refugees. Wait we already took in those Muslim refugees who bombed the Boston marathon! Liberalism is truly a mental disorder!
No chance in hell of them giving up that kind of money.
Going to a ball game, parking, eating some hot dogs and having some drinks costs about as much as going to a five-star steakhouse and that's not even counting the price of the tickets.
I lost a cousin to spit tobacco. A lifetime playing and coaching so of course I tried it too. But at the end of the day the alcohol sold at the games is going to cause more pain and suffering than chew. If this was really “for the children” they would ban the sale of alcohol and advertising. Too much money to be had for that to happen so pat yourselves on the back for the empty gesture.
Exactly; they are doing this for control and to appease the nanny staters. Then again, that's almost everything government does these days. I always call them out for their lies.
Massachusetts: ‘The Nanny State’
They should call it a cleaning fee rather than a fine.
I dip Copenhagen Snuff (original)
I remember when the lid on the can use to say “it satisfies”
Heck I don’t need to even spit out the first couple of flakes.
I got into it once in a leadership meeting with the finance director. She was a really beautiful woman but chewed her fingernails all the way down and the skin around them too and while she was in meetings. We were going over the new tobacco policy in the employee handbook and she gave me the look and said that chewing tobacco was disgusting. I fired back that I never once spit or even spit out the old stuff in the garbage can. Then I said what she did to her fingers was disgusting and un-sanitary while I imitated here gnawing.
The policy was never adopted...
So, you can still buy beer and get drunk, be belligerent and vomit if you like?
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