Research shows that when people quit tobacco while they are in treatment for substance abuse, they have better outcomes overall. Yet many treatment centers for people with substance abuse disorders, a population that smokes at much higher rates, don’t offer quitting services.
Truth Initiative® researchers examined six years of data on substance abuse treatment centers to determine how many centers offer tobacco cessation services and what makes a center more likely to offer them. They analyzed a sample of more than 94,000 responses to the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services—an annual survey sent to nearly all substance abuse facility administrators—between 2006 and 2012
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The major league clubhouse is a sanctuary, a player’s retreat from the gawking eyes of the thousands of fans in attendance and the millions more on social media who examine his every step daily.
Over the last year, though, some players have become particularly careful even when they are in that 25-man hideaway.
Before a recent game at Citi Field, one player stood at his locker, peeked from left to right and then slipped a can of smokeless tobacco into his back pocket. There was a reason for his surreptitiousness. Since last April, a city law has banned such products for use at both the Mets’ home ballpark and at Yankee Stadium.
And yet the player may not have had to act that secretively. Although similar laws against use of smokeless tobacco now extend to 12 major league stadiums outside New York, there is no evidence that municipalities are trying to closely monitor tobacco use inside clubhouses or that they are attempting to fine players for violating any of the recent legislation.
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