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Tobacco, endorsing cans of Happy Days

You cannot give up

In 1990, 26 of 28 baseball teams featured prominent outfield billboards for either Winston or Marlboro brands, though by the mid-90s, the topic reached a tipping point

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

Still, I focused on the job at hand (figuratively, since there was little focus left in my eyes by that time)