# Chewing Tar **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussion\ **Tags:** accord, honda\ **Created:** [March 29, 2011, 5:50pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/chewing-tar/63134 "2011-03-29T17:50:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
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Back In 29 A Guy Got “Loose Wits” From Breathing Noxious Tar Fumes And The AMA Warned Children Not To Chew Road Tar. My Father (at 9 years old) And Brothers Chewed Tar At About That Time. Link to 1929 Time Magazine article: > **[Medicine: Tar Poisoning](http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,881274,00.html)** > > A gob of road tar is a morsel which children like to chew. Tar contains > dirt, of course, and poisons with terrific names like creosote, > benzene, cyclohexane, anthracene, dianthracene, toluene,... CSA --- _[View the full topic](https://community.cartalk.com/t/chewing-tar/63134)._