Matt Myers, president of the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids, said chewing tobacco is not only deadly for adults like Gwynn, but it is increasingly popular with teens and boys seeking to emulate their baseball heroes
A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences identified nicotine residues in stone pipes from the interior Pacific Northwest that date to at least 3,000 years ago, providing some of the earliest direct biomolecular evidence of tobacco use anywhere in the world
"Some of these counterfeit cigarettes contain six times the amount of lead, hundreds of times the amount of tar, and in one case they found rat droppings in them," says Mr Crookshank
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