Baseball and smokeless tobacco seem to go together like white and rice. Recently, however, MLB has considered a ban on smokeless tobacco products in large part to protect children from emulating dangerous behaviors they see from their favorite players.
While no such action has been taken yet, three major league ballparks have banned all tobacco products and, starting in December, all ballparks in California will be free of all tobacco products.
Here's a recent article:
And another talking about the untimely death of all-star Tony Gwynn, who died from mouth cancer at the age of 54.
