Chewing tobacco is a staple of major league baseball and soon it may be banned in at least one city. San Francisco is inching closer to banning smokeless tobacco from all athletic facilities in 2016.
Via Associated Press,
The San Francisco ordinance is part of an overall push by the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, based in Washington, D.C., which targeted the city and California to promote its anti-smoking efforts. An even more expansive bill outlawing all tobacco use, including electronic cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, wherever an organized game of baseball is played in California is making its way through the Assembly.
It would be the first city to make such a move and it would be interesting to see how the players for the Giants and visiting players handle the ban.