Inhaling Aerosols Is A Really Stupid Thing To Do

In the eighties it was heroin. In the mid-nineties it was ecstasy. But before that, for a brief period in 1994, it was glue, aerosols and other such household items that sat at the centre of the big drug scare. Being an impressionable and very stupid lad it unsettled me, not least the idea that smelly stuff like my dad’s Lynx was dangerous if you sniffed it! IT WAS MADE TO BE SMELLED PEOPLE YOU ARE WEARING DEATHTRAPS OH GOD WHAT IS THIS. Eventually I figured out that what people were apparently doing was actively inhaling it, which struck me then and now as a really stupid thing to do and why would you do it and how did someone even come up with the idea in the first place? Anyway, there was a big scare in 1994 or so about kids dying with half a Pritt-Stick dangling out of their nostrils and there were assemblies and posters and a particularly forbidding leaflet and here’s one of a handful of (probably very cheap to make) PIFs they made to go with it. Notice how it’s aimed not at the kids, but at their parents, because the kids are just GLUE CRAZY FIENDS who wouldn’t understand.
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