Dear Heloise: My son and some of his friends have taken up chewing tobacco, which I find disgusting. My son is 18, and his friends are all around his age. While he knows smoking is a health hazard, he ...

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 ...

What do Randy Johnson, Terry Francona and thousands of former as well as current Major League baseball players have in common? They were, or are, addicted to smokeless tobacco. The greatest player of ...

With the ongoing investigation into the Tony Bosch steroid scandal, performance enhancing drugs are back at the forefront of baseball discussions. Steroids aren’t the only unhealthy substances to be ...

HOGANVILLE, Ga. - Justin Smith first felt the bump on his tongue last spring. "It was the size of a penny, maybe not quite the size of a penny," Smith remembers. He told his wife he might have bitten ...

Passage of this policy makes Detroit’s Comerica Park the 18th Major League Baseball stadium to become completely tobacco-free ...

Nicotine gum, such as Nicorette (nicotine polacrilex), is a type of medicinal nicotine replacement therapy. It’s a smoking cessation aid, meaning that people chew it on a short-term basis—typically ...

Thursday marks the 49th anniversary of The American Cancer Society’s Great American Smokeout. It’s a day that encourages ...

(USA Today) 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.

As smoking and other forms of tobacco use continues to decline nationwide, more resources are now available to help people quit. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services recently announced the ...

UCHealth expands its Tobacco & Nicotine Treatment Program, providing free bilingual support amid federal funding cuts.