Just saw this article on Earthlink news. As smokeless tobacco users, what do you think about this?
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Eliminating smokeless tobac in major league baseball
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I think it is an invasion of personal rights and unenforcable, nic is not illegal. I say it is unenforcable because snus can be used and nobody would even know.
Good thing about using snus is nobody would know unless I showed 'em. 'Course, money talks so if games got boycotted to the point of damaging ticket sales (and tax revenues).....then again, people in this country seem to be more obsessed with sports than there own families.....
ugh, anti-tobacco at it again... why don't they ban Big League Chew gum while they're at it
Actually I'm surprised they haven't yet. But they will, just like those little peppermint candy cigarettes I used to buy as a kid.
Will there ever be a stop to government interfering in our rights to live our lives.
IMO there are so many really important issues to focus on - mine safety, the homeless, child abuse, drunks killing people, drug trafficking to name a few that come to mind immediately.
It certainly makes trying to control what baseball players chew seem like such a stupid waste of time and money and whatever happened to "this is a free country"...it's been on the decline for decades now.
IMO there are so many really important issues to focus on - mine safety, the homeless, child abuse, drunks killing people, drug trafficking to name a few that come to mind immediately.
It certainly makes trying to control what baseball players chew seem like such a stupid waste of time and money and whatever happened to "this is a free country"...it's been on the decline for decades now.
It's funny... There's a song they sing before every big league ball game and if memory serves, it ends with something about "the land of the free..."
Maybe I just imagined the whole thing, though. I'm not feeling very free lately.
Maybe I just imagined the whole thing, though. I'm not feeling very free lately.
This hearing, which I watched live on my laptop, was a charade, a scripted theatrical production that attempted to use Congressional influence to bully major league baseball.
Congress didn't even get to first base.
The problem? Major league players have a union and it's a democratic union. No one tells it what to do, not even nanny-state House members. The players determine contractual items, such as a ban on use of chew tobacco, each year. Congress go only a promise that restrictions would be presented to the union for consideraton. Nothing more.
The anti's who testified were an ignorant, prohibitionist bunch that wouldn't even admit some tobacco products are less harmful than others. It's all or nothing for them. Quit or die.
Don't think of this as a waste of your tax dollars. What we had today is a waste any money you donated to Big Charity -- our newest enemy.
Congress didn't even get to first base.
The problem? Major league players have a union and it's a democratic union. No one tells it what to do, not even nanny-state House members. The players determine contractual items, such as a ban on use of chew tobacco, each year. Congress go only a promise that restrictions would be presented to the union for consideraton. Nothing more.
The anti's who testified were an ignorant, prohibitionist bunch that wouldn't even admit some tobacco products are less harmful than others. It's all or nothing for them. Quit or die.
Don't think of this as a waste of your tax dollars. What we had today is a waste any money you donated to Big Charity -- our newest enemy.
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