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Originally posted by rainmaker
You're not going to SEE the smoking right on the court, you'd see it as you walked around the gym trying to find the door that's open.
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In a basketball context, you're probably right, Juulie. But the NF also writes rules for other games (notably baseball and football) where the use of tobacco products
during the game used to be perfectly acceptable. Perhaps the anti-tobacco rules originated in those sports and then the various rules committees incorporated them into all HS sports as a general NF policy. So even tho you'll never actually see it on a basketball team's bench, the rule is there for consistency's sake?
That would also explain why there are anti-tobacco rules but no anti-alcohol rules. There is no sport (other than adult-league softball, hmmmm, and maybe darts) where drinking alcohol during the contest is acceptable.
I'm honestly just guessing, but it sounds reasonable.