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My ma (Boomer) likes to talk about how her and her siblings used to chew on road tar like gum and than she laughs about it, har har. Whenever I mention something I’m being cautious about with my kids.

She also had lung and breast cancer, could be unrelated but maybe it didn’t help.

I’d like to add that neither of my parents believed that second hand smoke was “real” either. So I got blasted with carcinogens from the age 5 until I moved out at 17. I’ll be lucky if I don’t get cancer.

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testaccount789@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
I thought that was just my father.
He also told me many times how that was their chewing gum.

And also the bottle of mercury they used to pour down a slide.
Oh, and also the tradition of melting lead on Christmas and pouring it into water, getting prediction of the future.

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- JennaR8r@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  
  getting prediction of the future
  
  Does molten lead in water magically spell out “you’re gonna get cancer” ?
  
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- MeatPilot@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  Now I need to find out how deep this tar chewing goes…
  
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