Fiery veteran right-hander John Lackey, who doesn’t chew, said the players are “grown men” and the legislation was “messed up” considering spectators are allowed to chug beer with impunity.
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The Dallas PostThe Chicago City Council on Tuesday raised the legal smoking age from 18 to 21, levied a $6 million tax on tobacco products, outlawed retail discounts for the daemon weed, and banned the use of smokeless tobacco at all professional and amateur sporting events.
“It comes down to telling me what I can and cannot do”, Maddon said.
If smokeless tobacco is used at a sports venue, a first offense will result in at least a $250 fine. “So I’ll just have to listen and learn”. “I think a lot of people would be unhappy about it. People that have success like to stick to their routine and do things a certain way”. “It’s going to be tough to quit cold turkey”.
The chewing of tobacco has long associations with baseball but players are already banned from indulging in the habit in ball parks in San Francisco, Los Angeles and Boston. Inherently that’s what I’m about. “Hopefully (this) will help me to quit”. “Just ban tobacco period if you’re going to go with that route”.
Chicago Cubs manager Joe Maddon speaks to the media the day before Game 1 of the 2015 NLCS in New York City, October 16, 2015. And for the players addicted to the stuff, it’s going to be hard as hell. I’m the wrong guy to talk to about that.
“Obviously, if they’re forcing me, I’ll have to force myself even harder to quick”.
“I’m into personal freedoms. Now if I know I can’t do it, maybe it’ll help me out”.
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“But I’m into education; educate the masses and let everyone make their own decisions…so to tell me what I can and can’t do as an adult _ unless it’s illegal _ that’s something different”.
