Wrigley drops Chris Brown's chewing gum campaign following his arrest for assault. Published: 10 February 2009 Wrigley has announced that it is suspending an advertising campaign featuring Chris ...

Researchers at UCLA found that chewing gum – even gum labeled "natural" – can release hundreds to thousands of microplastics per piece into saliva and potentially be ingested.

Personal Perspective: Gum chewing, a habit I've had for over 60 years, relaxes me and connects me with my past. How incredible that a simple act can add so much to one's life.

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The study estimated that an average person chewing 160 to 180 sticks of gum per year could ingest approximately 30,000 microplastics, significantly increasing the overall annual intake of ...

Extrapolating this further, a 2–6 gram piece of gum may release as many as 3,000 microplastics. Multiply that by the average amount of gum chewed annually, that you could be looking at around ...

Chewing gum releases hundreds to thousands of microplastics into your mouth, a new study suggests. Chewing gum's base ingredient is synthetic rubber, which is a type of plastic. A stick of gum is ...

Shockingly, chewing gum is made of plastic, meaning every chew is like biting into a plastic straw. "It breaks down into micro-plastics that are inhaled, ingested, and absorbed into our bodies.

Somewhere between 9,500 and 9,900 years ago, three Scandinavian teenagers were hanging out, chewing gum after a meal. Specifically, they were chewing pitch or tar made from the bark of birch trees.