For millions of fans of all ages, October means the excitement of the baseball playoffs and World Series.

 

For tobacco companies, it means another opportunity to target kids by associating smokeless tobacco with baseball and other sports.

This month’s issues of the two leading sports magazines, Sports Illustrated and ESPN, have included huge, two-page advertising spreads for Grizzly, which is by far the most popular smokeless tobacco brand among youth ages 12-17. Grizzly is made by American Snuff Company, a subsidiary of tobacco giant Reynolds American.

The magazine covers have featured sports heroes idolized by many young fans, including retiring New York Yankees captain Derek Jeter on the cover of ESPN magazine.

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http://www.tobaccofreekids.org/tobacco_unfiltered/post/2014_10_28_baseball

Scandalous.

 

We allow this to persist. Horrible.

The color Green seems to trump all logic.

          I am mortified

       that I supported

           Big Tobacco 

            financially

                  for

  ALL   THOSE    YEARS.

                    :( 

; (

This makes me feel ill

im sick