Posted on 03/17/2016 9:13:17 AM PDT by AT7Saluki
There was a time that chewing tobacco was as much a part of baseball as Louisville Slugger, Rawlings and Gatorade. Not anymore.
This summer, Chicago will become the fourth American city to ban smokeless chewing tobacco at sports venues -- including Major League Baseball ballparks Wrigley Field and U.S. Cellular Field.
That means not only can't fans use the substance, but players and managers can't, either. And it's a law that has some members of the Chicago Cubs less than thrilled.
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Chicago follows Los Angeles, San Francisco and Boston in implementing the ban at sporting venues. The entire state of California will follow in 2017, and New York will vote on a similar measure Tuesday,
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Ridiculous
Have these enlightened folks specified an arrival date for the Utopia that will result from their wanton banning of everything and anything?
Don’t spit and they won’t know. Snowflakes are annoying me.
The Bloombergization of America
Fascism in America ain’t it grand
Cellular technology is alleged to be linked to cancer now. "When they came for cigarettes, I said nothing. Then they came for chewing tobacco, I said nothing. When they came for cellular...."
Nanny State Ping.
The Louisville Cubs have a nice ring to it...
Do Trannies squat or stand?
Going to be a terrible backlash of proper toilet seat etiquette.
Though it will likely become a moot point within a few years. Snuff has been banned in the minors for about a decade.
The Ricketts Family need to send their Senator Ben Sasse to handled it.
“How is chewing tobacco hurting anyone except possibly the person chewing? There is no “second-hand” spit.”
Somewhere one the main explanations has something to do with the “it’s for the children” nonsense.
Why don’t they just ban any substance or activity that activates the pleasure center of the brain and produces those feel-good hormones ... ? Just get it over with already.
I guess that would make human reproduction a bit difficult, however.
Really? So "smoky chewing tobacco" is allowed?
Snus...spitless pouches
“Really? So “smoky chewing tobacco” is allowed?”
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What about tobacco-flavored gum?
(sounds like an idea for a Simpsons episode!)
Chewing tobacco and baseball have been together as long as hookers and johns.
I wonder what the libs would say about a ban on Chardonnay?
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