RED ALERT! Chewing gum toxic!

[dancing-loon]

Ottawa could move to label chewing gum ingredient as toxic substance

OTTAWA - The federal government is considering declaring a substance used to make chewing gum as toxic after tests on the colourless liquid with a sweet, fruity smell linked it to cancer in lab rats.
Vinyl acetate is one of 17 substances Health Canada could recommend be deemed toxic in a draft report to be published Saturday. The substance itself is not a direct ingredient in chewing gum. But vinyl acetate is used to make the polymer that's used as a base in gum.

http://www.macleans.ca/article.jsp?content=n051265A
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When will they ban fluoride from drinking water? That's another toxic substance!
And Aspertame, NutraSweet... are also toxic!

A little poison here, and a little poison there... just never outright enough to kill us!:roll:

 

[karrie]

I chew chios mastic

 

[Scott Free]

Nothing but Acesulfame-potassium for me!

 

[gopher]

Toxic Avenger:

 

[Praxius]

FFS... everything is a toxin... hell, Oxygen kills us eventually too, let's ban oxygen.... Oh and water while we're at it.

Who am I kiddin? The most we can hope for is the Government labeling oxygen as a controlled substance and we'll require licenses to use it.

 

[dancing-loon]

Hey, hey, Praxius!! Don't be so sarcastic... this is a serious matter!! I bet you chew lots of gum, don't you???
Karrie has the solution... chew only natural gum! I looked it up... comes from the Greek island Chios. It's the only place on earth where it is produced.

Here is another very toxic substance in gum: Aspartame! Read here what it can do:

Aspartame is a poisonous sweetener found in over 6000 products

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-7-23/57897.html

Add vinyl acetate to it, and you have a deadly concoction!8O

 

[Praxius]

Hey, hey, Praxius!! Don't be so sarcastic... this is a serious matter!! I bet you chew lots of gum, don't you???

Nope.... certainly not enough to give me bubble-gum cancer.

 

[DurkaDurka]

fear mongering has reached bubble gum now.... amazing. In other news, potatoes have been shown to cause rectal cancer in virgins.

 

[Praxius]

fear mongering has reached bubble gum now.... amazing. In other news, potatoes have been shown to cause rectal cancer in virgins.

8O Oh Noes!!! My sweet virgin ass! Now I gots Arse Cancer too along with Bubble-Gum cancer of the... er... gums??

 

[DurkaDurka]

8O Oh Noes!!! My sweet virgin ass! Now I gots Arse Cancer too along with Bubble-Gun cancer of the... er... gums??

haha. You'll need to get a celebrity bleaching. :x

 

[Praxius]

Opps I typo'd that I got bubble gunned in the mouth.

 

[gopher]

Everything
Everything gives you cancer
Everything
Everything gives you cancer
Theres no cure, theres no answer
Everything gives you cancer

Dont touch that dial
Dont try to smile
Just take this pill
Its in your file

Dont work hard
Dont play hard
Dont plan for the graveyard
Remember -

Everything
Everything gives you cancer
Everything
Everything gives you cancer
Theres no cure, theres no answer
Everything gives you cancer

Dont work by night
Dont play by day
Youll feel all right
But you will pay

No caffeine
No protein
No booze or
Nicotine
Remember -



- - - Joe Jackson

 

[dancing-loon]

Everything
Everything gives you cancer
Everything
Everything gives you cancer
Theres no cure, theres no answer
Everything gives you cancer

Dont touch that dial
Dont try to smile
Just take this pill
Its in your file

Dont work hard
Dont play hard
Dont plan for the graveyard
Remember -

Everything
Everything gives you cancer
Everything
Everything gives you cancer
Theres no cure, theres no answer
Everything gives you cancer

Dont work by night
Dont play by day
Youll feel all right
But you will pay

No caffeine
No protein
No booze or
Nicotine
Remember -



- - - Joe Jackson

you mean this Jackson???

 

[gopher]

this one looks sharper:

 

[mt_pockets1000]

I often wonder what was in all that Double Bubble I chewed as a kid.

 

[Praxius]

They were made out of little kids who made lame jokes, and the comics were a story of their last moments when they made their lame joke.... that's also why they were sorta flesh-pink colored.