PHILADELPHIA -- Philadelphia City Council is going to look at whether it should ban smokeless tobacco. It's been three years since the city banned smoking. City councilman Jim Kenney now is proposing an outright ban in Philadelphia on all smokeless tobaccos, including snuff, chewing tobacco and dipping tobacco.

Kenney cites the popularity of baseball and other sports in which players use smokeless tobacco. He says "kids are putting this stuff in their cheeks" and creating many of the same health problems with their gums and teeth that occur from smoking cigarettes.

Kenney's plan would ban all smokeless tobacco sales, not just sales to minors, because he says the industry has spent its time targeting those products at teens.