An unwelcome plug for chewing tobacco Chewing tobacco just isn’t blessed with many spontaneous celebrity endorsements. U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Corp., makers of Skoal dip, must have been at least somewhat pleased, then, when Gretchen Wilson wrote a song called “Skoal Ring” for her latest album—even though the country singer’s main talent seems to lie in calling herself a redneck. (“I’m redneck woman/And I ain’t no high-class broad/I’m just a product of my raisin’/And I say “Hey, y’all” and “Yee-haw,” goes her hit song.) But Skoal will take what it can get. That is, unless Tennessee’s attorney general intervenes. Paul Summers doesn’t have an issue with the song, but he is unhappy with Wilson’s live performance of it, which typically includes her pulling a tin of Skoal from her pocket as she sings. With that flourish, Summers believes, Wilson is publicly glamorizing tobacco use and thus may be violating the tobacco settlement provision forbidding tobacco ads targeting young people. Instead of seductively playing with the tin, perhaps Wilson could start actually dipping on stage. That would take care of the glamour problem. —Posted by Tim Nudd

August 26, 2005 | Permalink

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I'm a country music fan but for the life of me, I don't get Gretchen Wilson. Since when is an overweight, drunken slut a role model? Now we get to wait for the oral cancer to kick in? Eeew!

Posted by: Rick in Duxbury | Aug 28, 2005 11:58:23 AM

I'm not a country music fan and I still hate that neo redneck superhero bullshit.

Posted by: | Sep 2, 2005 1:27:43 AM

Gretchin wilsons music just flat out bites. Just when country music starts talking about hard work, morals and family life, she comes along and messes it up. If her personal life is anything like her music, she needs to seek professional help.
'Nuff said.

Posted by: Tim | Nov 2, 2005 8:15:14 AM

Gretchen wilson kicks ass. im a girl and i chew and there is nothing wrong with it. i say more power to her success and less to your demeaning bullshit.

Posted by: Sam | Oct 22, 2006 3:09:37 PM

Thank you Sam, I really appreciate your support. So what if I chew, millions of american men do it, what's so wrong for a women to chew? I could care less about morals, family life, working hard all that useless bullshit that country singers are talking about. Lets get fucked up, suck a fat cock and have a good ol time. What's better then gettin laid by someone new every night?! Hellllll YEAH!

Posted by: Gretchen Wilson | Feb 6, 2007 3:37:57 PM

There is a difference between glamorizing tobacoo and acknowledging its use by country music fans. How many minors go to Gretchen Wilson concerts without there parents anywaize.

Posted by: brett favre | Jun 14, 2007 6:42:05 PM

well you don t neeed 2 cus o and gretchen is HOT!!!

Posted by: yusadfhkljasdgasdg | May 5, 2008 9:40:39 AM

I LOVE DIP IM 13 grizzly straight is d best

Posted by: racheal | May 5, 2008 9:45:27 AM

I LOVE DIP IM 13 grizzly straight is d best

Posted by: Evans | May 5, 2008 9:47:21 AM

I LOVE DIP IM 13 grizzly straight is the
best when a getta pinch a get half a can

Posted by: Evans | May 5, 2008 9:49:19 AM

ok ok may i say G.W. is the best thing to happin to my life

i mean she is me only a woman

i mean hell i am a country singer i chew i drink i smoke most of all i do hard work and love my familie and beleive hank jr. should be president i just got a few bad habits comon all you nag-a-tive folks actin like your shit don't stink well how bout this

LET ME GET A BIG HELL YEA FROM THE G.W. FANS LIKE ME

HELL YEA

Posted by: the big ol bear | Jun 4, 2008 1:16:15 AM

you're all just filthy retarded white trash

Posted by: jim | Sep 20, 2008 10:10:01 AM

skoal straight is the shit

Posted by: brandon | Aug 19, 2009 5:35:53 PM

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