Controversial Use of Tobacco in Baseball

~In Baseball~

Aniket & Matthew

Imagine This

Shortly after the National Baseball League's inception in 1876, trading

cards with player's images emerged within cigarette packages.

Many new tobacco users are readily influenced to consume the product

by witnessing their favourite players and team managers

pompously chew and spit tobacco on the diamond.

Male Female58.8% 41.2%

18-34 35-49 50+28.0% 28.8% 43.1%

535,000# of kids age 12-17 who try smokeless tobacco for the

first time each year!

Split in 1/2Pro

(Lobbyists) Against

(Activists)

Tobacco?Mlb

For Against