Smoking, microplastics, heart attacks

“While the discovery of microplastics in coronary blood is concerning, the most intriguing finding may not be the plastics themselves. It is how they may be getting there,” David Gaze of University of Westminster warned in The Conversation. “People who smoke were 6 times more likely to have detectable micro- and nanoplastics in the blood supplying their hearts than non-smokers.”