An unwelcome plug for chewing tobacco

Chewing tobacco just isn’t blessed with many spontaneous celebrity endorsements. U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Corp., makers of Skoal dip, must have been at least somewhat pleased, then, when Gretchen Wilson wrote a song called “Skoal Ring” for her latest album—even though the country singer’s main talent seems to lie in calling herself a redneck. (“I’m redneck woman/And I ain’t no high-class broad/I’m just a product of my raisin’/And I say “Hey, y’all” and “Yee-haw,” goes her hit song.)