Anti-Smoking Crusaders Add MLB to Hit List

Re-energized by Rango‘s top spot at the box office, anti-smoking organizations this week reiterated their call to slap automatic R-ratings on movies that feature tobacco use — even when those users are cigar-chompin’, gun-shootin’, cowboy-hat-wearin’ gila monsters.

But the anti-smoking crusade isn’t limited to the multiplex. Last week, Rango-rivals the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Legacy Foundation, and the Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids partnered, along with seven other health-focused organizations, to target the dusty varmints of baseball.

The Knock Tobacco Out of the Park campaign urges everyone involved with Major League Baseball — players, managers, coaches and staff — to ban smokeless tobacco in the field and dugout.

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