Tobacco

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Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Statistics would show more injuries per participant for football than for chewing tobacco; I don't think it'd even be close, in fact. And yeah, even more for cheerleading. Sports are linked to injuries like drugs are; if you wanted to compare them for safety stats, and think that is the reason they're outlawed, then you'd wind up wondering!

OK, I Googled, taking the 1st appropriate hits that came up for terms I put in. 2001-6 in the USA...

football (touch & tackle combined): 21.92 injuries per 1,000 participants per year
moist snuff + chewing tobacco: 30.4 excess mouth or throat cancers per 100,000 users/yr.

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That is all wonderful, but what about smoking tobacco? After all all of it is outlawed or illegal on a school property. And if it is used on campus it is illegal in many places period by the law, not by officials.

Originally Posted by Robert Goodman

Are we in different worlds?

Yes, if you think on this site I am talking about anything other then high school sports. And even in college sports it is not allowed to have tobacco on campus or in a building.

But hey, keep hope alive if you think the rule is going to change anytime soon. And at the NCAA level it is also been outlawed to use such things by players and participants. And I have been to enough college sporting events for college or NCAA and they will not even sell alcohol in the building. Been to the Big Ten Tournament in both the Indianapolis and Chicago and they would not sell alcohol in the confines of the United Center and Conseco Fieldhouse. I went to the Final Four in Atlanta this spring and they did not sell alcohol there either. These things are not accepted other then pro sports and they cannot even use those things in many pro sports.

Peace