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_Published 2015-05-09. San Francisco banned smokeless tobacco from all sports venues Friday. For a sport as fiercely protective of its traditions as baseball, will it work?_


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## Transcript

Perhaps no American sport is more tied to its traditions than baseball, no matter the logic behind those traditions or frankly, the yuck factor. On Friday, the city of San Francisco banned chewing tobacco in all sports venues, including professional parks. that includes at & t park where the reigning world champion San Francisco Giants play. So Silicon valley moms and dads, you won't have to worry about your kids spotting their favorite player dipping starting next season. But why it took so long for any municipality to step in and ban chaw is more an issue of a game game that fiercely protects tradition.

Those lumps in players cheeks are so intrinsic to baseball they famously led to the make believe boys in the Sandlot getting sick on a carnival ride. Critics say it's hard to argue the product isn't marketed to real life kids, and baseball's inspired generations of tobacco addicts. I honestly don't like get any You know, buzz or effect off it anymore it just, it's just kind of a baseball thing. It gave me the idea of, oh, if I want to hit bombs I gotta be dippin'. The latest round of critics calling for an end to chewing tobacco in Major League Baseball came last year when Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn died at just 54 years old of cancer in his salivary gland.

Gwynn and his son, also a Major League ball player, blamed his years of dipping. Tobacco, in my mind, is what killed my dad. Of the new ban in San Francisco, Giants manager Bruce Bochy told the team's beat reporter, it's a step in the right direction. I think it can be a good thing. It's going to be hard to enforce. It's a tough habit to break.

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