Tobacco

[Welpe]

The problem being that coaches freely use chewing tobacco around their players and the NFHS does not want coaches influencing players in this manner. I know it was common with our coaches when I played and many saw it as tacit approval since the coaches did it.

[Robert Goodman]

Originally Posted by Welpe

The problem being that coaches freely use chewing tobacco around their players and the NFHS does not want coaches influencing players in this manner. I know it was common with our coaches when I played and many saw it as tacit approval since the coaches did it.

But there are probably as many or more people who would disapprove of coaches displaying other vices, such as smoking cannabis or drinking liquor or looking at porn in front of their players, yet there's no Fed rule about doing those. I notice there's not even a Fed rule about nicotine gum (or non-nicotine gum), only tobacco.