The result is a sweet, extremely juicy chew that lasts a good 30 minutes. There’s almost always a line outside a good paan stall, where customers watch as the maestro prepares each treat.

Chew is made fromloose tobacco leaves that are sweetened and packaged in pouches. Plug: Chewing tobacco is pressed into a brick, usually with the help of molasses or another sweet syrup.

The Sox catcher was a spokesman for a tobacco company in the 1970s, but once he realized the dangers of chewing, he gave it up in 1985. ”Quit for three years,” Fisk said.

If you venture to go check out old footage of Hall of Fame outfielder Tony Gwynn, you're going to be reminded of just how sweet his swing was. You may also notice that the former San Diego Padres ...

A ball and chewing tobacco before a Colorado Rockies at Milwaukee Brewers game in 2012. (Jeffrey Phelps/Getty Images) THE CENTERS for Disease Control and Prevention released some dismaying ...

The study also cited an NCAA statistic that found that 52.3% of collegiate baseball players tried smokeless tobacco at least once in 2012 to 2013.

Health warning As well as containing tobacco, they have as much, if not more, nicotine in them as smoked tobacco products do. So, like cigarettes, they are highly addictive.