Baseball Season Opens with Historic Limits on Smokeless Tobacco Use

Its opening day for Brewers baseball and I just wanted to remind everyone out there that the 2012 season will be the first ever to be played with restrictions on smokeless tobacco use by big-league players, managers and coaches. This is a huge step in the right direction. Youth look up to these sports stars as role models and the last thing they should see is a big wad of chew in a players mouth.

While these new restrictions are not everything tobacco control advocates hoped for, they do represent significant progress -- if they're enforced.

If you see any player, coach or manager using tobacco at any time during the season, tell the Campagin for Tobacco-Free Kids and their partners by clicking the "Report Use" button at tobaccofreebaseball.org. 

They have also provided a refresher on what the new contract does and does not do -- just click the website's "Learn More" button. You can also like the movement on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TobaccoFreeBaseball or follow the movement on Twitter @tobaccofreeball

Good luck to the Crew today! I'm sure the team will play better being tobacco-free!