You also bring it up throughout the season, UCLA Coach John Savage said, but its not a daily reminder. Cal State Northridge Coach Greg Moore said, We educate them constantly and talk about their choices. But, he added, I know that me saying smokeless tobacco is unhealthy is not going to get a guy to change his habit. The California Interscholastic Federation, which governs high school sports in the state, forbids the use of tobacco products by athletes and coaches
Each day in the U.S., around 1,500 youth aged 17 or younger smoke their first cigarette, according to the 2019 National Survey on Drug Use and Health by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA)
in 2019, 21 became the minimum age nationwide
The continued marketing of these products has the potential to have the greatest public health impacteither positively or negativelyas they hold the largest overall market share and therefore likely used by the largest number of people
