During National Take Down Tobacco Day, students at Legacy High School held their Cloud Free Carnival to play games as student ...

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 ...

Chewing gum has been added to the growing list of things that lead us to ingest hundreds and thousands of microplastics. But is it really surprising considering gum is pretty much made of plastic ...

Colorado laws restrict youth access to gambling, pornographic magazines, cigarettes and chewing tobacco, marijuana, alcohol, and firearms, but not to pornographic websites. This week, lawmakers ...

A study published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials reveals that chewing a piece of gum for one hour can result in exposure to over 250,000 microplastic particles in saliva. This adds a new ...

The research findings, led by Queen’s University Belfast and published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, demonstrated how potentially harmful materials can enter the body from chewing gum.

Now another source of microplastics in the body has been discovered: chewing gum. Chewing gum contains long molecules called polymers. Some brands of gum contain natural polymers from tree sap.

Last week, Health Secretary Ted Herbosa drew sharp criticism from public health advocates when he and several government representatives posed with Philip Morris executives during the turnover of ...

The tobacco center at the Food and Drug Administration has drawn criticism from all sides in recent years. Tobacco opponents said it wasn’t doing enough to crack down on sales of illegal e ...