Seeds and baserball...

It amazes me as well as to how many HS kids dip. It's almost like at some schools, if you don't, you're an idiot. I think it's the other way around personally!

All of the area high schools have signs that say "tobacco free zone", but I guess dip doesn't count.

These kids don't know or don't care I guess that the habit is very hard to break. I can't stand it when they show an MLB guy on TV and it looks like he's got 5 pieces of gum in his bottom lip. Some guys can't even talk when they are dipping from so much in their lip.

I'm done.

I'm addicted to seeds, have been for some time. In the summer when there are games nearly every day, I catch myself eating seeds when travelling the metromess in my truck, only to figure out there isn't a place to spit the dang shells.

I start High School Ball with Peanuts becasue I am so addicted to seeds. I wait until Summer ball to start because, to work my way back into seeds. Lots of different seeds to choose from however the best are still Davison

Splitter Son was at a baseball event this weekend. Of the 20 kids on his bench 18 had smokeless tobacco in their bag, their gums or borrowed some. These were Jr. and Sr. young men. Splitter Son took quite a bit of ribbing for having never tried it. I can't imagine when this became so popular, but it is a scary trend.

Isn't it sold like cigerettes? What about those "No tobacco" signs? Is the product labeled "tobacco?"

There's been many a Monday morning after a tournament weekend the tip of my tongue and the side of my mouth was so sore, I could barely stand it. It usually takes a couple of days for things to get back to normal!!

I wouldn't change it for the world though!

Hubby kicked his 1-2can a day Copenhagen habit coming up on 5 years now. An evil old neighbor man got him hooked when he was about 12 or 13 years old. He fought that addiction for so long, and it took a cancer scare and a 4th baby on the way, to make him get serious about quitting. He stopped cold turkey and never touched it again.

The specialists he saw said that if you dip snuff long enough the chance of it getting you is 100%. They also said that it is more addictive than a lot of illegal drugs and harder to kick. Nothing to fool around with, and one of the most disgusting things ever. Blech!

If either of our boys ever started dipping snuff, the tobacco health risks would be minimal compared to the risk of bodily harm from their Daddy!

Oh, and he is a total baseball season seed addict now. Whines all the time about the sores in his mouth from chowing down all that salt. Once an addict always an addict I guess.

OP, You're right, all schools do say No Tobacco, Drugs, etc. However, not only do a large numbers of players smoke or dip, but there are some coaches (a surprising number actually) that dip, or sometimes, smoke.

as a player in highschool it becomes very popular when you are entering your sophmore year. Most kids that I know were askd if they wanted to try by a senior and they did just so that they could be "cool" with the seniors. But the problem with it is after a couple times they really enjoy what it does. This is were the problem happens in the he starts then he gets other kids to start and it gets bad. And as another its near impossible to quit cold turkey. But then again its part of the game that has made it America's past time. Go play catch and put a little dip in.

Does it affect the typing/spelling/grammar skills as well hsp?

HSP-

In english please

Actually, his post isn't bad for #21 -- not when comparing it to your first few dozen contributions DT and JB.

PD- I think it took me about 2 posts to start laying the grammar hammer down. of course i could just may start postin like this agian.

Come on guys, you know Julie charges extra for commas and capital letters. He is just a high school player after all...he has no money.

Arghhhh!!!! The daggers, the daggers their piercing is painful.

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Hubby kicked his 1-2can a day Copenhagen habit coming up on 5 years now. An evil old neighbor man got him hooked when he was about 12 or 13 years old. He fought that addiction for so long, and it took a cancer scare and a 4th baby on the way, to make him get serious about quitting. He stopped cold turkey and never touched it again.

The specialists he saw said that if you dip snuff long enough the chance of it getting you is 100%. They also said that it is more addictive than a lot of illegal drugs and harder to kick. Nothing to fool around with, and one of the most disgusting things ever. Blech!

If either of our boys ever started dipping snuff, the tobacco health risks would be minimal compared to the risk of bodily harm from their Daddy!

An excellent point 2010 et al.

Sometimes seems to accepted in high school and not discouraged by coaches from an era where is was very prevalent.

I have seen the college umps enforce the no tobacco rule.

PD- You're right. At first I didn't use much grammer, but I learned that if I didn't want Collikar all over my case, i'd have to learn a lesson. Besides DT gives me enough criticism at school, I dont need anymore on here.

I'm a freshman in college and started dipping when I was 15. Pressure from Srs got me started and often get other people started. Copenhagen Snuff/Long Cut is my dip of choice.

Well, JR, here's a little glimpse into your future.......

http://www.quitsmokeless.org/gallery/

My sincere apologies to all of those out there for my terrible grammar. I had asked my teacher to use the restroom so that I may come and look on the website. So in my mere two minutes on the computer I messed up a little bit. So sorry to collikar. I will try ever so hard to type like this from now on. DT and JB

HSP- Maybe leaving class to get on the computer would be a better start.