Chewing gum may be a $19 billion industry, but it's not a universally accepted practice. As Jennifer Mathews tells Liane Hansen, chewing gum is a crime in Singapore, and, in 15th-century Meso-America, ...

While a few major manufacturers in the United States were making millions on chewing gum, they were also having a major impact on the chicle extraction industry of Latin America. The majority of ...

From the Publisher: Although Juicy Fruit® gum was introduced to North Americans in 1893, Native Americans in Mesoamerica were chewing gum thousands of years earlier. And although in the last decade ...

Showof hands — anyone ever dump a whole packet of Chiclets in your mouth when you were a kid? Crunching those multicolored rectangular bits into a big rubbery wad was even better than eating Pixie ...

If Thomas Adams' original concept had succeeded, we may have ended up driving around on great-tasting tires. Courtesy of Cadbury Adams USA Chewing "gum" is an idea that goes back millenia, when people ...