Sanchez Smokes a Cancer Stick?
by Matt Birch on Jan 28, 2010 11:26 AM EST
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PrintA lot of people like to smoke when they drink. At the same time, they're not athletes and they're not franchise quarterbacks.
Mark Sanchez is.
Mark Cannizzaro, who covers the Jets for the NY post, reported this morning that on Tuesday night Sanchez was seen partying it up at "The Nick" in Birmingham, Ala.. He was in attendance at the club to show his support for a Brooklyn-based band called "Her & Kings County"
The prominent athlete was a class act as usual, as he signed autographs for many fans.The radiant role model we all know and love was truly the life of the club.
Unfortunately, eyewitnesses allegedly saw him briefly smoke a cigarette while in attendance.
Cigarettes have 4000+ chemicals. Whether you smoke one, or one million, you're ingesting toxins which are harmful to your body. We didn't trade up to draft him for a 3-year plan, we'd like him to stay awhile. In good health...
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Bias
I might be a little biased here, as I smoked for almost a decade. Quit a year ago. Have never felt better.
Just don’t see why an athlete of that stature would do that to their body.
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If you are able to casually smoke, have a cig every now and then with a drink
it really isn’t an issue. The thing is, most people aren’t capable of smoking in that capacity. Some people I knew would quit smoking when wrestling/football/baseball season started, and were okay with it. I personally don’t care what he does either way, but I get the feeling that if he were a regular, pack a day type of smoker we would have heard something about this much, much earlier. My guess is that he was having some drinks and bummed a cigarette from somebody. Being Sanchez’s age, I know plenty of people who smoke the occasional cig when they drink and don’t smoke habitually.
Remember, athletes smoked cigarettes regularly as little as 20 years ago. It is far less frequent now, but it is what it is. He is a grown man and can do what he wants. It isn’t illegal. Consuming alcohol can have just as much, probably more of a negative effect on your game then smoking cigarettes, and athletes are out in clubs, drinking constantly, yet nobody ever finds that noteworthy enough for discussion.
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Have seen first hand what smoking can do to someone, lost my dad when I was a little kid to lung cancer on the back of 20+ years of smoking.
I don’t see the point in it, I thought he was more intelligent than that personally, it’s only one, and I doubt he smokes regularly but even so, he shouldn’t really be doing it, as a person and especially as an athlete with several million heavily invested in him.
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give me a break...
Let the man do what he wants. It’s his body, his life!!
Besides, 20+ years is a long time. Has Sanchez smoked that long??? Who knows…
As long as it doesn’t prevent him from becoming the Great QB we all know he will be, I don’t care if he whips out the Cancer stick when no one is looking…
We don’t really know how accurate that story is yet. But it would surprise me to hear of any athlete smoking (apart from what Shaun Ellis was smoking). You’d figure they’d know better what is good for them or not.
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Lol, I actually have less of a problem with the stuff Ellis was smoking on…. it doesn’t contain all the chemicals that cigarette smoke has.
That being said it’s illegal, but it’s use by athletes has certainly risen over the last couple years (ESPECIALLY in the NBA)
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As a pack-a-day smoker...
I can understand why people do it. I’ve been telling myself the pack I’m on will be my last one for Lord knows how long now. The thing is I just don’t get why people start smoking now, knowing it’s bad and the million-and-one health risks that come with it.
On the bright side of this, Mark is a young man and if he quits soon he can minimize most of the long term risks. Course he could’ve just had a drink and bummed one from somebody. But if he smokes them on the regular, then he has time to get out and save his body from irreparable damage.
I doubt he smokes em on the regular, probably just bummed one randomly off someone like you said. I know a couple people that used to smoke and only do on rare occasion now (new years, bday, night of epic drinking..). Only a few per year though.
We know Sanchez was the life of the party at USC… I dont think its farfetched that maybe hes smoked a couple every year randomly while partying if the situation presents itself. If thats the case, not too big of a deal, but I still don’t understand why he would.
Like the guys below said, it may or may not be fallacious. No pics surfacing as of yet.
and RE: Quitting… you can quit! Make it your last one. Once you committ mentally it’ll fall into place. Try the electric cigarette, helps for a lot of people. I chewed the gum for about 10 days after that was ok. GL to you, you can do it.
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me too people now a days with do anything to get a athlete or star in trouble.
by LostOnRevisIsland24 on Jan 28, 2010 12:54 PM EST up reply actions
I DO.
This IS the internet, after all. Stupidity abounds…
And I meant those who would attack someone...
…who smoke occasionally like Mark does.
Must be a slow news day
If he wants to smoke, so be it.
Im not about to tell anybody what they should do. To be frank, I don’t care. Just suit up and play well on Sunday. What you do with the rest of your life, I could care less. Its not like playing professional football is exactly good for his long-term health anyways. If it affects his play, then he needs to stop. If it doesn’t, he can drink, smoke, shoot or sniff what ever the hell he wants in my book. Its his life.
It's not like he's on HGH or something illegal...
…If he smokes a lot(which I doubt), will it have long-term implications for his health 20 years down the road? Sure.
But after 20 years, you think he’d still be playing Football?? He’s not exactly Vinny Testaverde in that regard…lol.
The poor guy can’t eat a hot dog, cant smoke, cant date a supermodel, without people finding some bs reason to make a big deal out of it. Give me a freaking break.
It's just one, I'm not too worried
This may be just a rumor, so don’t worry too much, but If his becomes a lot, it will truly be a disaster, we didn’t give him this huge contract just to see him be too sickly to keep playing well.
"We're only going to score 17 points?"
This is f*cking ridiculous
Any reports on whether he washes his hands after going to the bathroom? Anyone gone through his garbage recently?
The first and third options are sort of the same
Both could be read as “I don’t care”
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by HotChipWillBreakYourLegs on Jan 28, 2010 8:13 PM EST reply actions
year long high wire
Rose Bowl,camp,long season working sundays,,play offs,sees dr, finally can relax with a little time and money for a couple of days and I bet he can only laugh cause MC and the others are micro scoping his life….What are you doing on SUNDAYS….
by TIBETAN SOCCER TEAM on Jan 28, 2010 8:26 PM EST reply actions
Smoking is dumb
but I have to think that, if Sanchez only “briefly” smoked one, what damage could he have really done to himself? I doubt one “brief” smoke is enough for the nicotine to create an addiction, and one smoke probably will have a very minimized effect on the body.
This only becomes a problem if Sanchez becomes a chain smoker. And obviously, that’s not going to happen…unless, of course, he wants to throw away his entire career.
Slam dunk....
This is really simple. Gone are the days where players are paid next to nothing and can train minimally to expect maximum results. Like it or not, when you sign for that kind of money, a team puts forth medical staff to try to keep you in as good a shape as possible. That’s how they try to maximize their “investment”. Don’t players have a similar responsibility to themselves and the team? Ingesting any product that can take away from performance would not be looked at kindly.
For the few of you who question the dangers of ingesting the carcinogens in tobacco products, well, let’s just say that science and research isn’t exactly on your side.
Ok
Ingesting any product that can take away from performance would not be looked at kindly.
I would like to know every single athlete that had consumed an alcoholic beverage this year. Since they are being paid by these teams, shouldn’t they be responsible and not drink? Drinking will likely impact performance far more then smoking cigarettes. Yet nobody cares when these guys are out drinking every night. Cigarettes may be bad, but they aren’t going to effect the guy until he is done playing anyway. I think if this is a big deal, then we should be talking about any athlete that either consumes alcohol, speeds in their car, or just does anything the some people find wrong. Those are all irresponsible things that can all possibly hinder your performance, or stop your team from “maximizing their investment”.
You may not like smoking, it doesn’t mean that grown men shouldn’t be able to do something 100 percent legal because you don’t like it. Do you have the same issues with athletes that drink?
"Relax, all right? Don't try to strike everybody out. Strikeouts are boring; besides that, they're fascist. Throw some ground balls. It's more democratic."
- CRASH DAVIS
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