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Major players and leaguers of Major League Baseball (MLB) either use dip tobacco, chewing tobacco, or just constantly spit all the time.

A high usage of smokeless tobacco among players you can find in baseball, because baseball is a sport that requires a lot of physical fitness. It has been estimated that 33% of the players in the MLB use chewing tobacco.

For to stay physically fit baseball players choose chewing tobacco rather than smoking cigarettes.

Chewing tobacco is considered to be not so good for sportsmen. In fact, Babe Ruth, the greatest baseball player in history in various surveys and rankings, died from throat cancer possibly linked to chewing tobacco in 1948.

Children and young people who watch baseball have their favorite players. They usually ask their parents or friends what is in their favorite players’ mouth. Some may already know that it is tobacco and they think that if their favorite players do it then chewing tobacco is cool.

Young people are especially receptive during their teenage years. This is also the period of their lives that they are most likely to first try chewing tobacco.

Even their favorite players have a bad habit as chewing tobacco teenagers will continue to believe and to do the same as do their favorite athletes. Because teenagers think that chewing tobacco makes players to play better, or that tobacco is cool because the professionals do it. That’s why they will most likely try tobacco because they have seen their favorite professional athletes do it.

But the anti-tobacco researchers think in another way not as teenagers. They showed that in many cases smoking increase breathing rate during sub maximal exercise, and this reduce athletic performance.

In a report was showed that athletes use chewing tobacco for recreational or social purposes, to deal with the stresses of college athletics and to feel good. About 53% of the athletes who use chewing tobacco reported using it 1-5 times daily, even they all know that the use of nicotine in high doses is toxic and can cause nicotine poisoning.