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Snuffing tobacco out of sport

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  • Connolly, G.N.
  • Orleans, C.T.
  • Blum, A.

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Use of oral snuff has risen sharply among baseball players following a tobacco industry marketing campaign that linked smokeless tobacco with athletic performance and virility. Millions of adolescents have copied these professional role models and, today, are at risk of developing oral cancer and other mouth disorders. New policies and programs are needed to break the powerful grip that the tobacco industry has on professional sport. Health agencies, including the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute for Dental Research, have teamed up with major league baseball to help players quit and reduce public use of oral tobacco. If these efforts are successful, our national pastime will once again become America's classroom for teaching health and fitness, not nicotine addiction.

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  • Connolly, G.N. & Orleans, C.T. & Blum, A., 1992. "Snuffing tobacco out of sport," American Journal of Public Health, American Public Health Association, vol. 82(3), pages 351-353.
    • Handle: RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:1992:82:3:351-353_0
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    1. Stéphane Henninger & Roland Fischer & Jacques Cornuz & Joseph Studer & Gerhard Gmel, 2015. "Physical Activity and Snus: Is There a Link?," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 12(7), pages 1-14, June.
    2. Chaffee, Benjamin W & Couch, Elizabeth T & Walsh, Margaret M, 2015. "Smokeless Tobacco in Sport and Use Among Adolescents," University of California at San Francisco, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education qt6rc6v9t2, Center for Tobacco Control Research and Education, UC San Francisco.

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