Do you spit gum???

**Yogi** · 02-23-2005, 02:42 PM

Some British towns are considering a tax on chewing gum, to be used to

clean the streets and public places people leave their gum..............

Why now??? When in some places the steets are allready paved with

gumstains...........

It's one of those pollutions that allways amazed me......

When i walk in front of a trainstation or one of the platforms i am allways

baffled so many people just spit out their gum instead of throwing it away

properly in a waistbin.

I suggest not only a 50% tax on gum(instead of the one penny/pack

suggested suggested in England........), but also a thousand dollar fine on

gum littering!!!!

Dissgum!!

YoChew

**brenda** · 02-23-2005, 04:15 PM

if you swallow it it sticks to your insides and you die

**TheDave** · 02-23-2005, 04:17 PM

Originally Posted by brenda

if you swallow it it sticks to your insides and you die

lies like that are the reason theyre putting tax on it

**brenda** · 02-23-2005, 04:18 PM

....... and if you swallow an apple pip a tree will grow in your tummy

**TheDave** · 02-23-2005, 04:20 PM

yeah, that happened to me once

**TheDave** · 02-23-2005, 04:24 PM

http://health.yahoo.com/search/all?p=chewing+gum&b=1

i also did a google search on chewing gum related deaths and got a load of choking stories but not much else

**DarthInsinuate** · 02-23-2005, 04:41 PM

isn't chewing gum made from oil based products, maybe its one of them stealth conservationism taxes. nah, that sounds like a good thing, that's not what governments are for

**lynx** · 02-23-2005, 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by DarthInsinuate

isn't chewing gum made from oil based products, maybe its one of them stealth conservationism taxes. nah, that sounds like a good thing, that's not what governments are for

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