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3/27/2008

The use of chewing tobacco continues to decline in Major League Baseball. In 1998, after former Cleveland Indians player Brett Butler, a smokeless-tobacco user, was diagnosed with throat cancer, Major League Baseball barred teams from providing players with tobacco products. All tobacco use was banned in the minor leagues that same year. Teams provide more healthful chewing alternatives. In a single season, the Indians will go through 12 cases of sunflower seeds and 10 cases of Bazooka bubble gum. That might be why players always seem to be spitting whenever the TV camera peeks into the dugout.