Frank Lautenberg, D-New Jersey, asked baseball commissioner Bud Selig to ban the use of tobacco products on the field, in the dugout and in the locker rooms at MLB venues
It comes after the Covid-19 pandemic halted economic and social activity, increasing levels of loneliness, but also amid a new awareness of the importance of the issue
We have all had the experience of trying to pull a thick milkshake through a straw, it's difficult and unpleasant
The film left a deep impression on him and inspired the 1955 song Folsom Prison Blues, featuring the haunting lyric: I shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die. The track became one of his signature songs and built his reputation as a voice for the downtrodden
(Reuters Health contributed to this story)
Plus the fact that many fewer people smoke