Curt Schilling Writes Letter to 16-Year-Old Self About Chewing Tobacco

Curt Schilling said last August that he believed chewing tobacco caused his oral cancer. In a letter to his 16-year-old self in The Players Tribune this weekend, he advised against ever taking the dare to dip Copenhagen:

It remains a bizarre scene to tune into a baseball game and see the omnipresent spitting of tobacco, and one imagines that’s a tradition of the game that is nearing its end.