• Smokeydope@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Honestly I think that were a little overly concerned about microplastics since if it were truly poisonous you would hear about plastic poisoning in the news hundreds of times a day. My parents chain smoked their whole life absolutely full of carcinogens way worse than microplastics for decades and they are still kicking in their mid 60s today. The human body under normal circumstances is ridiculously resistant

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      1 year ago

      It could be cancer that takes years to develop. Most things like that like asbestos, lead, etc… take a long time to be detected/ figure out how they’re damaging the body. Even once they are, you can’t prove that’s what caused it without scientific testing/ statistics.

      Microplastics can act as carriers of other environmental toxins, such as PS, and exposure to high concentrations of PS are detrimental to human lung cells, increasing the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.