{"id":1253,"date":"2014-06-16T17:31:09","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T17:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=1253"},"modified":"2014-06-16T17:31:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-16T17:31:09","slug":"gwynn-is-latest-victim-of-tobacco-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=1253","title":{"rendered":"Gwynn is latest victim of tobacco use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Terry-Mosher-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-315\" alt=\"Terry Mosher 3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Terry-Mosher-3.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"592\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Terry-Mosher-3.jpg 600w, http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Terry-Mosher-3-300x296.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Terry-Mosher-3-135x133.jpg 135w, http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Terry-Mosher-3-85x83.jpg 85w, http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Terry-Mosher-3-280x276.jpg 280w, http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Terry-Mosher-3-576x568.jpg 576w, http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Terry-Mosher-3-145x143.jpg 145w, http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Terry-Mosher-3-566x558.jpg 566w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>TERRY MOSHER<\/p>\n<p>Tony Gwynn dies at 54 from cancer and, boy, I am angry.\u00a0 Not at Tony, but at tobacco. Tobacco kills, and I don\u2019t care what you say to the contrary. It\u2019s addictive and a killer.<\/p>\n<p>Before we go further, let\u2019s be clear, Gwynn believed the cancer was a result of him using tobacco as a chew, as many Major League players once did (not many do anymore and in 2012 as part of the new basic agreement with players baseball put limits on the usage and visibility of it on the field and in front of fans. However, players can still use it as a dip).<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s stupid to use it as a chew or to smoke it because research shows what it does to you. My sister Minerva died of complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), as did Les Eathorne.<\/p>\n<p>Minerva smoked for nearly 60 years, finally quitting when she developed lung cancer. Eathorne also smoked. And my sister-in-law, Peggy, another long time smoker, has COPD, is on oxygen, and can\u2019t move from a chair she is so incapacitated.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t smoke, don\u2019t chew, it\u2019s that simple. For Gwynn, it\u2019s too late, but you can still break the addictive habit and survive. Just do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; TERRY MOSHER Tony Gwynn dies at 54 from cancer and, boy, I am angry.\u00a0 Not at Tony, but at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-column","category-mosher"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1254,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253\/revisions\/1254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}