Chewing Tobacco and Baseball

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/columnist/brennan/story/2011-10-19/mlb-tobacco-ban/50831090/1

Chewing Tobacco has been part of professional baseball for a long time and it has been involved with the image of the game. It is now normal for players to use it on the field even though most serve as role models to young children. Congress is proposing banning chewing tobacco in baseball do to its harmful side effects. The article discusses the want for Congress to ban the product. Congress is once again getting involved with the business of professional baseball just like it did a few years back with the performance enhancing drug controversy. However, Congress might have difficulty banning chewing tobacco due largely because it is a legal product in society and because tobacco itself has been related to baseball for a long time. There is no question that many of these professional baseball players serve as role models to young children across the world. Given that tobacco leads to serious health risks like cancers and death, it is not a bad idea banning chewing tobacco in baseball. Banning chewing tobacco in baseball will help clean up the image of the game, protect players from future diseases and will eliminate the bad influence it gives young children across the world.

Rogelio Ruelas
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