Urban Myth #23: Don’t swallow your gum
Well, I suppose you could (and as it turns out, you can), but if your mom is like mine, she’ll tell you it will stay in your digestive system for seven years.
However, there’s a great site called Snopes that helps debunk all sorts of urban myths (i.e. if you forward this e-mail to 20 of your friends, Bill Gates will send you a gazillion dollars), and on that site, Barbara “The Gumshoe Report” Mikkelson (see, I told you there will be puns in the world of gum) tells the whole story about the risks of swallowing gum (as well as telling the story of loggers, the state of Maine and the Alamo and their relationship to the history of gum!).