If baseball were really interested in the players' health, Miller added, it should ban tobacco and test for usage.

And yet no government bans tobacco.

The failure to ban smokeless tobacco is bad for the health of the players and worse for the kids who emulate them.

If those in power can't ban tobacco, they should make it as difficult as possible for people, especially young people, to smoke.

Health officials want to make the tiny South Pacific island of Niue the first country in the world to be fully smoke-free by banning tobacco.

"If the state thought it was being injured by tobacco, it could have banned tobacco," he said.

Nobody is about to ban tobacco, nor is anybody about to put the cigarette companies out of business, much as they might like to.

Hoping to discourage tobacco use in younger players, the major leagues banned chewing tobacco in 1994 from minor league clubhouses.

Islam's Qur'an bans alcohol and gambling, while various fatawa also ban tobacco.

I would be very pleased if we could ban tobacco, which we have classified as dangerous.