1.   Among those players, spit tobacco is causing serious health problems.

2.   An integral part of baseball culture, spit tobacco is causing serious health problems for the players.

3.   A player will be ejected from a game if he is found using spit tobacco.

4.   But spit tobacco contains about four times as much nicotine as cigarettes and makes its users six times more susceptible to oral cancer.

5.   Doctors, scientists and athletes are beginning to discover the mounting dangers of spit tobacco.

6.   Don Fear, executive director of the Major League Baseball Association, said most baseball players who use spit tobacco refuse to believe they are courting cancer.

7.   These three articulate and impassioned opponents of spit tobacco in the hands of baseball players and the children who idolize them wished against what occurred last week.

8.   Those who have used spit tobacco for years complain of headaches, sleepless nights and a lack of concentration.

9.   Through NSTEP, which includes a national network of doctors and cancer research specialists, Garagiola found how pervasive the use of spit tobacco is.