Is micro plastic more deadly than tobacco ? My guess would be no .

Some more context :

Smoking is only twice a week.

Chewing gum is 10 a day

  • Annoyed_🦀 @monyet.cc
    28·
    9 months ago

    That’s a lot of gum you chew a day. But definitely still tobacco. You get more microplastic from other source than chewing it, but you get 100% of nicotine from smoking.

    • Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com
      1·
      8 months ago

      Apparently it’s not the nicotine that is bad for you but the smoking (snusa, or chicking tobacco under the lip, is not particularly bad, or I’m on old research papers), inhaling smoke is really bad for you though and that is something we really know about.

      Also, I guess we would have noticed “gum chewers” dying everywhere like the 2G phone users, or flat earthers going missing when hiking…

  • fin@sh.itjust.works
    20·
    9 months ago

    tobacco, obviously. You also shouldn’t do drugs, vape and drinking (too much) etc

  • ScaraTera@lemmy.world
    11·
    9 months ago

    If I’m not wrong there are non-plastic based gums available too, sure they are expensive but if you are concerned about mixeopastics you should comcder that option

    • wahming@monyet.ccEnglish
      61·
      9 months ago

      Because there’s plastics in everything at this point. Literally.

  • Alsjemenou@lemy.nlNederlands
    3·
    9 months ago

    There is no such thing as ‘more deadly’. The adverse effects of smoking to your health are known. The adverse effects of nanoplastics and accompanying compounds are less well known.

    If you are concerned with your health than actually be concerned with your health, stop doing unhealthy shit with any frequency. Eat plantbased, exercise, get yourself checked out at a doctor, do a blood test. You know what a healthy lifestyle looks like. Do that.

    Otherwise do whatever you want. Go crazy.

  • Scrof@sopuli.xyz
    1·
    8 months ago

    If that’s 10 a day sugar-free gum it will destroy your intestines eventually. If it’s sugary it will destroy your teeth. Smoking twice a week is probably even less harm than inhaling cars exhaust on streets everyday.