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Saban chews 'Red Man'...

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"He gave me a case of Red Man tobacco," Saban said. "Birmingham's got a lot of great people."

A reporter asked if Saban still chews.

"Every now and then," he said. "I was chewing at the lake. We just came from there."

That's Lake Burton in north Georgia, where the Sabans have vacationed since Saban was the LSU coach.

"Oh, he spits tobacco in the water," Mrs. Saban said. "It's terrible, but he says it's good for the fish."
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Hot-diggity! I knew there had to be something Saban and I had in common. Red Man (gold) is my favorite, too. For some strange reason, women don't like their husbands chewing. Can't understand it. Guess they'd rather hang around smokers who pollute the atmosphere. Spitting at the fish is one entertainment I haven't tried yet.:p
 
Pachydermatous said:
For some strange reason, women don't like their husbands chewing. Can't understand it. Guess they'd rather hang around smokers who pollute the atmosphere. :p
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I'm figuring it has to be the HIGH risk of Oral Cancer. BEWARE This link contains very GRAPHIC PICTURES. Just a small warning from your Friendly Neighborhood Cancer Survivor

"Guess I'm just a bit still gung-ho from Relay For Life a couple weeks back."
 
Pachydermatous said:
Hot-diggity! I knew there had to be something Saban and I had in common. Red Man (gold) is my favorite, too. For some strange reason, women don't like their husbands chewing. Can't understand it. Guess they'd rather hang around smokers who pollute the atmosphere. Spitting at the fish is one entertainment I haven't tried yet.:p
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When I was a young lad, my grandfather chewed Red Man. He always spat on his lure and into the water while fishing and said that the tobacco juice attracted the fish.

He always caught more than me, so I started taking a pouch with me when I went fishing.

I'm either a terrible chewer or a terrible fisherman or both.
 
CaliforniaTide said:
Are these the same SEC football coaches meetings that they have for football like last year in Birmingham? Or are these something different?
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The "Spring Meetings" are an annual gathering for discussing real issues . "Media Days" is the unofficial start of the season . It's just for smoozing , interviews and letting the media make their predictions for the season along with golf and beer .
 
California, the meetings in Destin, FL are the SEC coaches meetings and it's a yearly thing. The stuff in Birmingham every year is SEC media days and aren't really meetings, just a press conference with each SEC coach and 1-2 players from each team where they field questions about their teams.
 
My dad chewed BeechNut all of his life and I chewed RedMan for a while. It is ok as long as one doesn't swallow the stuff.
My Uncle actually caught a Brim using Redman as bait.

I just gave it up.

If anyone follows UAB football, you will recall that Pat Sullivan (now at Samford) contracted oral cancer due to chewing tobacco.
 
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I used to chew Red Man. It gets stuck in your teeth to much so when I absolutely need a fix, I stick with snuff.

As for a fish attractant, try using WD 40 sprayed on a lure. It works.
 
To clear the air a bit on the subject of chewing:

1. Oral cancer is a rare disease and there is no real proof it is caused by tobacco chewing.

2. If you want to quit smoking, chewing is the quickest way to ease out of the habit. I recall a medic at UAB who publically advocated this very course. He was chewed up by the anti-any-tobacco crowd.

3. Snuff is too strong for me. You can get dizzy using it.

4. I've never spit on a fishing lure. But I have finalized many a creepy, crawly bug.
 
Pachydermatous said:
To clear the air a bit on the subject of chewing:

1. Oral cancer is a rare disease and there is no real proof it is caused by tobacco chewing.

2. If you want to quit smoking, chewing is the quickest way to ease out of the habit. I recall a medic at UAB who publically advocated this very course. He was chewed up by the anti-any-tobacco crowd.

3. Snuff is too strong for me. You can get dizzy using it.

4. I've never spit on a fishing lure. But I have finalized many a creepy, crawly bug.
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I realize that this is a football board and this topic is not a football topic (other than the original point that ties it to Saban) but the above is just blatantly not true at all.

There is a mountain of evidence that both chewing tobacco, smoking tobacco and snuff all cause cancer of the mouth (yes, even smoking can cause mouth cancer). I have a very close friend whose father died of mouth cancer caused my chewing. First he lost most of his mouth (and yes, half of his tongue) in an attempt to literally "cut" the cancer out and finally he died. It was a direct result of chewing tobacco. I had another very close friend who dipped from the time he was 15 until he was 20 when he had literally rotted out a portion of his gums and had contracted cancer too. Fortunately it was caught in time to cure him but that case too was a direct result of dipping tobacco. Finally I have another friend whose father was a cigar smoker all of his life and he would chew on an unlit cigar while playing golf. He too got cancer of the mouth and had nasty surgery in an attempt to save his life that was unfortunately unsuccessful.

I'm happy that you live in a fantasy world, but don't post things that can and are read by minors on this board that are blatantly NOT TRUE. To even try in 2007 to suggest that any and all tabacco products don't cause cancer and can't cause mouth cancer is just wrong. Yes, some people get mouth cancer who have never dipped, smoked or chewed and some people get lung cancer who have never smoked in their lives, but that doesn't diminish the negative effects tabacco products can and do have on the human body including its most dangerous end result, which is cancer.

Here is a direct copy and paste from an Oral Cancer site.


The list of risk factors mentioned for Oral cancer in various sources includes:

Tobacco - this accounts for about 80-90% of cases.
Smoking
Cigars
Pipes
Chewing tobacco
Snuff

Oh and the site also says that there were almost 30,000 new cases of oral cancer last year.
 
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Chewing can have many ancillary benefits, even though it is a problem in the city. Here one has to have a little help, like a handy spittoon. They stopped furnishing those in stores long ago, so I carry one in my truck, right between the seats. It serves its designed purpose, plus it is a great crime deterrent.

Criminals usually "case" a vehicle before they hit it. They look through a window, and if they see that some nitwit has left a cell phone, purse or expensive package on a seat, they break in. But when they look in the window of my truck they espy a well-used spittoon, and they move on. Several years ago I also decorated my truck seat with a dog's skull, which I had found in the country. But too many sudden stops sent it flying to the floor and it eventually broke up.
 
Pachydermatous said:
Oral cancer is a rare disease and there is no real proof it is caused by tobacco chewing.
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Wrong, wrong, wrong. Read these pages:
The National Cancer Institute
The American Cancer Society
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
From the CDC:
Smokeless tobacco contains 28 cancer-causing agents (carcinogens). It is a known cause of human cancer, as it increases the risk of developing cancer of the oral cavity. Oral health problems strongly associated with smokeless tobacco use are leukoplakia (a lesion of the soft tissue that consists of a white patch or plaque that cannot be scraped off) and recession of the gums.
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