I applaud The Herald’s anti-smoking campaign and view. (Monday editorial “Time to spit out today’s cancerous role models.”) Yet I find it hard to understand why everyone is making such a hoopla about ...

OAKLAND – Tony Gwynn's multitude of accomplishments, career batting average of .338 and his pioneering use of video earned him the rapt attention of players whenever he talked baseball. Major League ...

FORT MYERS, Fla. - This June 16 will mark two years since Paul Molitor lost his close friend and fellow Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn at age 54 to parotid (mouth) cancer. Before he died, Gwynn blamed his ...

WASHINGTON — Four U.S. senators and health officials from the cities hosting the World Series are urging the baseball players union to agree to a ban on chewing tobacco at games and on camera. The ...

When I heard about Tony Gwynn's death last month, I thought about a story I had seen on 60 Minutes many years ago. It was about an 18-year-old high school track star named Sean Marsee who had used ...

Aug. 20, 2014, 10:50 AM EDT / Source: WJAR-TV Former major league pitcher Curt Schilling says he's been treated for mouth cancer and blames the disease on using chewing tobacco for about 30 years.

The main chemical in mothballs, , is present in large amounts in most moist snuff, the main kind of in the United States. And naphthalene is just one of nearly two dozen related chemicals — called , ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco has become the first city in the nation to outlaw chewing tobacco from its playing fields, including AT&T Park, home to the San Francisco Giants. Players and the ...

Wyoming tops the nation in chewing tobacco use, with nearly 1 in 6 adult men in that state using the product. Government researchers found men use chew, snus and other smokeless products at much ...