Chew on This!  Hugh Betcha Confronts Anti-Tobacco Chewing Senators at World Series

On the eve of the 2011 World Series, a group of Democratic Senators, consisting of Dick Durbin (IL), Frank Lautenberg (NJ), Richard Blumenthal (CT), and Tom Harkin (IA) urged the major league baseball players union to impose upon its members to give up the time honored tradition of tobacco chewing while playing baseball or on camera. Insisting that the use of tobacco by the players sets a bad example for youngsters watching the game, the quartet, backed by certain public health interest groups and other associations, by implication, suggested that the government may impose stronger measures if the players did not follow their gentle urgings. Dispatched from Stoos Views Headquarters, in sunny Wynstone, South Dakota, where the air is clean, the folks are friendly, the crime rate is low and people vote red, Hugh Betcha—Chief of the Stoos Views International Health Bureau and Winner of the 2011 Nobel Prize for Public Interest Reportage--hopped the first puddle jumper out of town and flew to St. Louis to meet the Fearless Foursome outside the stadium where the first game was to be played this week. He found the four Senators huddled over a hand warmer outside the stadium, their picket signs resting against the burning barrel.

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