[La Enchiladita]

It's up to the players to be men and fight this.

[cripplecreek]

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

[4yearlurker]

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

[Lazlo in PA]

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.

[Joe 6-pack]

I think MLB should file suit against the various Native American tribes, seeking reparations for spreading the scourge of tobacco amongst its players.

< /sarc>

[Leo Farnsworth]

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.

[boop]

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.

[bwc2221]

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

[isom35]

I propose restrictions on Selig.

[Gabz]

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...........

[onedoug]

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!