{"id":198,"date":"2014-06-16T12:48:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-16T16:48:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/?p=198"},"modified":"2021-07-02T08:52:01","modified_gmt":"2021-07-02T12:52:01","slug":"hall-of-fame-baseball-player-tony-gwynn-dead-from-cancer-at-54-chewing-tobacco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/2014\/06\/16\/hall-of-fame-baseball-player-tony-gwynn-dead-from-cancer-at-54-chewing-tobacco\/","title":{"rendered":"Hall of Fame Baseball Player Tony Gwynn dead from cancer at 54 &#8211; chewing tobacco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hall of Fame baseball player, Tony Gwynn, died today of head and neck cancer. \u00a0He was an avid user of chewing tobacco, which has many known carcinogens. \u00a0Gwynn was 54 years old&#8230;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Nitrosamine content is associated with the risk of developing cancer. \u00a0Chewing tobacco contains polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), as well, which are also carcinogenic. \u00a0Nitrosamines and PAH&#8217;s are known mutagens. \u00a0(see\u00a0<a title=\"Smokeless Tobacco Fact Sheet - National Cancer Institute)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/cancertopics\/factsheet\/Tobacco\/smokeless\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.cancer.gov\/cancertopics\/factsheet\/Tobacco\/smokeless<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>Gwynn was a phenomenal hitter, amassing 3,141 hits over a 20 year career with the San Diego Padres. \u00a0He was a 15-time All Star and averaged 0.338 for his career, which is 18th all-time. \u00a0(see\u00a0<a title=\"Hall of Famer Tony Gwynn dies\" href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/11091626\/hall-famer-tony-gwynn-san-diego-padres-died\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/espn.go.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/11091626\/hall-famer-tony-gwynn-san-diego-padres-died<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hall of Fame baseball player, Tony Gwynn, died today of head and neck cancer. \u00a0He was an avid user of chewing tobacco, which has many known carcinogens. \u00a0Gwynn was 54 years old&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2252,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2252"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5027,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions\/5027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.edu\/cancer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}