Chewing tobacco banned at AT & T park

[DJ Fieri]

San Fran axes baseball tradition -- smokeless tobacco - CNN.com

(CNN) Chewing tobacco has long been a tradition in baseball, but that tradition could be on its way out in one big-league city.

San Francisco on Friday banned smokeless tobacco at all sports venues, including AT&T Park, home of the city's Major League Baseball team, the Giants.

It makes the city the first in the nation with such a restriction.

The bill is intended to "send a simple and strong message -- tobacco use in sports will no longer harm our youth, or our health," said Mark Farrell of the Board of Supervisors, who sponsored the bill.

 

[calsnowskier]

If the Giants had done it, OK. It is their prerogative.

But since San Fran did it instead, No Fucking Way! Let people live the way they want. It is a nasty as hell habit, but there is no second hand smoke, so let people do what they want to their own bodies, even if they are stupid by doing it.

 

[The Derski]

Although I feel people should be allowed to do what they want, if you can't restrain from putting tobacco in your lip for 3 hours then you have issues.

 

[dredinis21]

Although I feel people should be allowed to do what they want, if you can't restrain from putting tobacco in your lip for 3 hours then you have issues.

You are right. I do.

 

[dredinis21]

Kidding. I dip about once or twice a day at most, can go multiple days without jonesing.

 

[dredinis21]

But there are people who dip like 24/7, a Can+ per day and who this would be a problem for, though.

 

[williewilliejuan]

So long as they aren't spitting near me, I don't care.

 

[Chewbaccer]

Look at my user name and you tell me what I think about it.

Shame, I always thought AT&T Park would be a great venue to visit.

 

[Chewbaccer]

I dip around a can and a half a day. A plug of chaw will last me about a week.

Anyone who puts down tobacco is putting down America and should be hanged for treason. What do you think helped those early colonies make it? Could it be America's first cash crop, the greatest plant of them all, tobacco? And if you're against tobacco, I also highly suspect you of being racist against black people seeing how without tobacco, many of the slaves wouldn't have been brought over here and thus many of our black friends wouldn't be here today if not for tobacco.

Plus those anti tobacco commercials are the gayest thing I've seen since gay came to gay town. They just make me want to dip and chew more when I see them so I don't end up acting like the queers in the commercials.

 

[Chewbaccer]

Grizzly Straight is my coffee. Don't talk to me in the mornings before I've had my first dip. Really, smokeless tobacco is my only motivation to get out of bed some days, but a spit bucket next to my bed solved that problem.

 

[The Derski]

I guess everyone is passionate about something. Damn

 

[Davis_Mike]

Fuck this. Good luck trying to enforce that.

I am not a fan of tobacco products, but this is a big overreach. As long as someone isn't spitting it all over the place, I could care less if you chew. Why not ban shitty high calorie fat laden food instead. That's a far biiger health risk to society than chewing tobacco. Be a leader in the fight against obesity instead of doing this PR stunt.

 

[Chewbaccer]

People like to bitch about tobacco causing cancer. Guess what princess, the sun is giving you cancer every time you walk outside.

 

[Wazmankg]

As long as they carry something to spit in, it's their life. But spitting that shit on the ground anywhere but on your own property should be illegal.

 

[GNG]

If the Giants had done it, OK. It is their prerogative.

But since San Fran did it instead, No Fucking Way! Let people live the way they want. It is a nasty as hell habit, but there is no second hand smoke, so let people do what they want to their own bodies, even if they are stupid by doing it.

This banning of chewing tobacco seems rather gay.

 

[GNG]

As long as they carry something to spit in, it's their life. But spitting that shit on the ground anywhere but on your own property should be illegal.

You should move to San Francisco... You'll meet some gentle people with flowers in their hair.

 

[Chewbaccer]

As long as they carry something to spit in, it's their life. But spitting that shit on the ground anywhere but on your own property should be illegal.

No fucking shit dude. I don't think you're gonna find too many people spitting on the floor anywhere if they expect to stay any period of time.

 

[Wazmankg]

You should move to San Francisco... You'll meet some gentle people with flowers in their hair.

I guess replying with something that actually addresses what I posted is too much to ask from you. Cleaning up after ourselves is something most of us learned in kindergarten. I take it you flunked.

 

[Chewbaccer]

No fucking shit dude. I don't think you're gonna find too many people spitting on the floor anywhere if they expect to stay any period of time.

 

[williewilliejuan]

Like other San Francisco traditions, they prefer tobacco chewers to swallow rather than spit.