NY Banning Smokeless Tobacco...

[Byron Carter]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/03/2...anned-in-ny-baseball-parks.html?intcmp=hplnws

By what right does the government tell people they can't use a product which only impacts the user?


I understand Tobacco bans in two cases:

#1 - Smoked tobacco because it exposes other people to harm
#2 - Jobs that provide health insurance not wanting employees using it. Don't like it, don't take the job.

But this?

Seriously, you aren't our kings or our gods. Stay out of our personal lives.

 

[Prime Ang]

As long as it doesn't get banned a ball parks in Florida idc, also the thread title is misleading. It's only banned in baseball parks in New York, your title makes it seem like it's banned in all of NY

 

[Rex Kwon Do]

New York City is retarded. Some legislator tried to ban table salt once. Nothing shocks me.

 

[ripskater]

The baseball players will still use it. Just watch.

 

[kpt018]

I think I agree. Seems like they signed a specific ban because ball players are role models? Sounds like bad legislation to me. But to be fair the 3 articles I read quickly, including this one, don't give a lot of flavor as to the exact reasons this was put into law.

I'd be perfectly ok with MLB banning it because they want their league to have a positive image for youth, but the government should stay out of stuff like this.

 

[ripskater]

I think I agree. Seems like they signed a specific ban because ball players are role models? Sounds like bad legislation to me. But to be fair the 3 articles I read quickly, including this one, don't give a lot of flavor as to the exact reasons this was put into law.

I'd be perfectly ok with MLB banning it because they want their league to have a positive image for youth, but the government should stay out of stuff like this.

The players union would never agree to it. Tobacco is a part of baseball. High school baseball players use it. If they get caught they'd be in trouble though.

 

[phipps66]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/03/2...anned-in-ny-baseball-parks.html?intcmp=hplnws

By what right does the government tell people they can't use a product which only impacts the user?

Tobacco use translates to higher costs for everyone because healthy people like me have to pay higher health insurance premiums so they can cover care for smokers when they inevitably get a disease.

 

[ILLogic]

 

[Prime Ang]

The players union would never agree to it. Tobacco is a part of baseball. High school baseball players use it. If they get caught they'd be in trouble though.

In HS to not get caught we would chew a bunch of bubble gum, then wrap the chew in bubble gum so that when you spit it's pink and it just looks like you're chewing bubblegum

 

[kpt018]

The players union would never agree to it. Tobacco is a part of baseball. High school baseball players use it. If they get caught they'd be in trouble though.

I would be cool with that too (and agree the players union would shut that down if the players wanted to use the stuff).

When I played in high school half my team used that shit. It's disgusting, but it really is part of the game. I played just about everything but soccer and baseball was the only sport where that stuff was around. I think it's due to having so much down time in the game and not being all that physically taxing.

I just don't buy the idea that government should be regulating personal decisions like that.

 

[ripskater]

I would be cool with that too (and agree the players union would shut that down if the players wanted to use the stuff).

When I played in high school half my team used that shit. It's disgusting, but it really is part of the game. I played just about everything but soccer and baseball was the only sport where that stuff was around. I think it's due to having so much down time in the game and not being all that physically taxing.

I just don't buy the idea that government should be regulating personal decisions like that.

I never did it either. I had teammates chewing it though and hiding it from our coaches. Who were chewing it themselves.

Man I miss playing. Those were good times.

 

[Rex Kwon Do]

lol, really?

Yep. Though I should have been more specific. Here, from a Guardian article:

"Now a member of the city's legislative assembly has gone a step further by introducing a bill that would ban the use of salt in restaurant kitchens.

Bill A10129 would forbid the city's chefs from using salt in any of their recipes. "

No salt. At all. In any food cooked in a restaurant. Lol.

 

[ripskater]

Yep. Though I should have been more specific. Here, from a Guardian article:

"Now a member of the city's legislative assembly has gone a step further by introducing a bill that would ban the use of salt in restaurant kitchens.

Bill A10129 would forbid the city's chefs from using salt in any of their recipes. "

No salt. At all. In any food cooked in a restaurant. Lol.

Lol, that's the NYC govt for you.

 

[Rex Kwon Do]

Lol, that's the NYC govt for you.

Yep, Big Brother knows best. Trust him.

 

[ripskater]

Yep, Big Brother knows best. Trust him.

That's probably part of the reason why the people of NY relocated to Florida.

 

[Seano]

Good, its disgusting. I wish the rest of the country would follow suit. People walking around spitting all over the place over leaving soda bottles of chew spit laying around. Gross.

 

[ILLogic]

I never did it either. I had teammates chewing it though and hiding it from our coaches. Who were chewing it themselves.

Man I miss playing. Those were good times.

Did you catch or pitch?

 

[ripskater]

Did you catch or pitch?

I pitched of course.

 

[jefferz]

That's dumb; almost all recipes call for salt. I can just imagine people smuggling salt packets into restaurants. lol

You know they'd set up a tip hotline too. Sad part is, people would use it.

 

[ripskater]

Good, its disgusting. I wish the rest of the country would follow suit. People walking around spitting all over the place over leaving soda bottles of chew spit laying around. Gross.

When my dad was a kid, he found a coke bottle, thought it was coke but it was someone's spit bottle.