Mayor declares sports fan they can't use tobacco

[WhipperSnapper 88]

Originally Posted by LordSquidworth

It's likely not because of someone chewing tobacco at a baseball game.

It's likely because of the few idiots out there that are spitting in the stadium, not a container.

Remember folks... Things like this are often the result of a few morons ruining it for everyone.

Give me one instance where that was sighted as the reason?

No, in every case, they talk about the impressionable youth and how we need to be providing a responsible example, etc. etc.

In other words, it's brainwashing, pure and simple.

[T-310]

Chewing tobacco and spitting in a cup and leaving that behind is just gross. Clogging up urinals and drinking fountains when some loser unloads his mouth into is just nasty. Like to chew? Swallow it when done.
Otherwise, keep that nastiness and grossness at home.

A few times when I have relieved the off going crew and I take over the train, a spit cup is sitting on the engineers console reeking of grossness. I open the window, yell at the off going crew and throw their spit at them. A few times of that cures that problem.

[pknopp]

Originally Posted by T-310

Chewing tobacco and spitting in a cup and leaving that behind is just gross. Clogging up urinals and drinking fountains when some loser unloads his mouth into is just nasty. Like to chew? Swallow it when done.
Otherwise, keep that nastiness and grossness at home.

That's a problem for the stadium, not the government.

[T-310]

Originally Posted by pknopp

That's a problem for the stadium, not the government.

Regardless, it's crude and nasty.

[dechatelet]

Something about winning office goes to a lot of politicians' heads.

They become little dictators who think they are qualified to run everyone else's lives right down to the smallest details.

Combine this with apathetic and inattentive voters, and you get the Nanny State.

[Quick Enough]

Originally Posted by TheDusty

Stadiums are tax payer funded, for some reason, so that's fine with me. Build their own stadium and make their own rules. Would I ban chewing tobacco? Probably not, but if people started spitting it wherever or in toilets or whatever (or in a bottle and leaving the bottle for someone else to dispose of), I'd be open to it.

Also, that's not communism. Only someone with minimal knowledge of communism would think it is. In fact, the existence of these tax payer funded stadiums is more communist that this, but we aren't talking about that for some reason.

"Stadiums are tax payer funded" please quit with the over generalization. NOT ALL stadiums are tax funded.