"snus"

[WTF11]

Apparently officially sanctioned by managers and club officials, insane.

https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/s...egal-uk-140166

[Orgoner]

Apparently officially sanctioned by managers and club officials, insane.

https://inews.co.uk/sport/football/s...egal-uk-140166

Certainly shouldn't be encouraged.

The guy whose Patriots ST I used to have on loan here (I played outdoor footie with him too) had to have treatment for throat cancer (he seems to have made a full recovery, thankfully). Not good.

I think he used more of a raw blend of chewing tobacco (i.e. not in "teabags"), but it is a pretty obnoxious habit (you see a lot of baseball players using it) and I'm always seeing half-filled plastic bottles of the spat out residue chucked along the roadside. Yuck!

[Billyni]

Most on here are more familiar with a snooze

[alfinyalcabo]

Most on here are more familiar with a snooze

Are you related to KIN.? 🙂

[Orgoner]

Most on here are more familiar with a snooze

To be fair, it wasn't until I clicked on WTF's link that I realised it wasn't about that snood thing players liked to wear a couple of seasons or so back.

I think it's called dip here?

[spaldy]

Dip or chew. Chew is usually the pouch tobacco. It’s one of the most addictive drugs there is

[WTF11]

Dip or chew. Chew is usually the pouch tobacco. It’s one of the most addictive drugs there is

And we have professional footballers and their coaches/managers in the senior leagues wiling to either ignore, or even worse, sanction, their use by players. Just what is professional football coming to? Why don't we just go back to having tobacco sponsorship, smoking in the stadia etc etc? Have we learnt absolutely nothing (it would appear so)?

FWIW, and in my always humble opinion, any player using these disgusting products should be banned FOR LIFE, any coach/manager seen to sanction their use when they know it to be so, should face the same sanction. Needs to be stamped out, fast, hard and for ever.

[spaldy]

It's a tough issue. Athletes are "role models" whether they want to be or not. However, so are politicians, social media influences, singers or entertainers. Go to any social media site and you will se "singers and song writers singing about being women, killing cops, smoking dope or doing drugs etc. A minute search will find you any of these things.

dipping while playing sports hardly falls in the category of the above.

In the end it really should be about your choice what you put in your body. if you smoke, do drugs, lay around watch TV, eat fatty foods or sweets, work in a super stressful jobs or drive anywhere with the idiots out on the road you are shortening your life.

In the end it's all about control. those with power want to take your ability to control your body in everyway they can. They do it in little chunks at a time.

[WTF11]

It's a tough issue. Athletes are "role models" whether they want to be or not. However, so are politicians, social media influences, singers or entertainers. Go to any social media site and you will se "singers and song writers singing about being women, killing cops, smoking dope or doing drugs etc. A minute search will find you any of these things.

dipping while playing sports hardly falls in the category of the above.

In the end it really should be about your choice what you put in your body. if you smoke, do drugs, lay around watch TV, eat fatty foods or sweets, work in a super stressful jobs or drive anywhere with the idiots out on the road you are shortening your life.

In the end it's all about control. those with power want to take your ability to control your body in everyway they can. They do it in little chunks at a time.

In principle, I agree with the "it's your choice etc", but what I find absolutely staggering is that the previous incarnation of these things, Skoal Bandits, were banned because of direct and demonstrable links with throat and mouth cancers and huge increase in poor oral health generally (gum disease, loss of teeth (and not through any punch in the face for being so stupid as to use these things!), and yet we have a very well paid, very well supported (as in the support they get in terms of nutritional advice, health care generally and in particular that which relates to their performance on the pitch etc.), supposedly intelligent group of athletes, many of world-class standing, willing to run the risk of all those health issues returning, all because of some tenuous, unproven link to them helping with "attention deficit" and/or "chilling out"! Sheer lunacy.