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“Smokeless tobacco
The use of smokeless tobacco is now prohibited on the grounds of any public school. Christie signed S-293/A-493, a bipartisan measure that its Republican sponsors say will make clear that chewing tobacco and snuff are not safe substitutes for cigarettes even though the products are popular among professional baseball players.
One sponsor, Kevin Rooney, R-Wyckoff, cited statistics that 1 in 7 high school boys uses smokeless tobacco.”