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Butler also successfully influenced others to quit using tobacco

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His claims are supported by records, memos, and studies reviewed by The Inquirer that show the tobacco industry worked tirelessly in the 70s and 80s to ensure that dip and chewing tobacco were part of the fabric of baseball, as recognizable and intrinsic as Cracker Jack

You can only have so much of the scare effect and hope it takes with everybody, but inevitably you're still going to have guys that make that decision to do it." "Hopefully sad situations like this with Tony maybe start to wake people up even more." Another former Braves player, Brett Butler, overcame oral cancer after years of chewing tobacco