Tobacco Maker Wants 'Low Risk? Label

Yeah, I guess if you have to have your tongue cut out because of tongue cancer from this product, you can still live, therefore, lower risk.

His speeches are making a difference. "Ballplayers will go back to the locker room and give me their chew cans and say they want to stop," he said. He tells the students, "When it comes time to put tobacco in your mouth or light up a cigarette, remember this face and this mouth."

He hopes someday to talk to major leaguers. "I would love to talk to the big leaguers who say they don't want to talk about it," he said. "They're addicts. Take their can away and see how mad they get.

"I'd say,`Why don't you be a role model for your family? How can a little can this size have more strength than you?' It's an addiction, but most of it is right up here," he said, pointing to his head. "Tobacco is the only product, used as directed, that will kill you."

-Gruen Von Behrens
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