Babe Ruth died at 53 from throat cancer and I know he chewed tobacco, smoked cigars, drank whiskey. Fellow hall of famer nellie fox constantly chewed or smoked tobacco and died in his mid 40s from cancer ....my late dad chewed days work natural tobacco and he thought the chemicals in many processed tobaccos were much worse than just real thing..he died of a heart attack at 57 due to other vices besides chewing and smoking a pipe