Do Youngsters Still Sniff Glue?

[sandyRoe]

I remember being in a hardware shop when a teenager came in and asked for two tins of glue. The assistant reached under the counter and produced tins already wrapped in brown paper and sellotape.
The shop clearly wasn't overly interested in the welfare of its younger customers.

[youngmafbog]

I am sure there will be some. Hippy crack is the latest though, but a tube of Evostick is probably easier to get hold of.

[davebro]

// a tube of Evostick is probably easier to get hold of.//

but harder to let go?

[barry1010]

Darius Campbell Danesh died recently of inhaling chloroethane, much to my surprise. I remember youngsters inhaling this from cans of ice cold (for spraying on aching muscles) during the 80s and thought it the fad had long died out.
I haven't seen any scabby faced youths recently (a sure sign of glue sniffing) but I do see plenty of nitrous oxide cannisters in gutters and parks, the latest craze (hippy crack)

[youngmafbog]

Dont know Davebro, XR might know the answer.

[Gromit]

No.
The youth of today use nitrous oxide (laughing gas),
I see discarded canisters all over the place.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-33691783

[roadman]

isnt sniffing glue stupidly dangerous

[Gromit]

No more than driving a car.

[Ken4155]

Brings back happy memories. Back in the 80s while walking my dog, i came across a group of glue sniffers. Their 'leader', a particularly nasty little cretin, was sat on someone's garden fence with his nose well and truly inside the bag. As i approached, he slurred, "What you staring at?". He then fell off the fence and broke his arm. As i said, happy days:-)

[sandyRoe]

Ken4155
If he'd been using laughing gas he wouldn't have needed anaesthetic when it came to resetting his broken arm.

[Buenchico]

>>> The youth of today use nitrous oxide (laughing gas),
I see discarded canisters all over the place.

Glue-sniffing and inhaling nitrous oxide have long existed side by side. Back in my teaching days, our school yard and playing fields would be littered with nitrous oxide cylinders on a Monday morning, after kids had been using them over the weekend - and that was 40 years ago!

Quote:
"In England, 4.2% of 11-15 year olds have used glue, gas, aerosols or solvents in the past year on record and 4.1% have used nitrous oxide".

Source:
https://www.re-solv.org/solvent-abuse-facts-and-research

[Buenchico]

>>> isnt sniffing glue stupidly dangerous

Quote:
"There were 38 deaths associated with volatile substances in the UK in 2020 – 24 in England, 1 in Wales, 8 in Scotland and 5 in Northern Ireland.

Between 2015 and 2020 there were 220 deaths associated with gases and solvents in the UK – an average of 44 deaths per year".

(Source as above).

[barry1010]

Gromit, I've driven thousands of miles in cars and haven't once got so much as a scabby face from doing so.
Sniffing glue is stupidly dangerous, more than 1000 youngsters died because of it between 1983 and 1992, mostly under 18s. What a tragic waste of lives.

[douglas9401]

Gromit's jerky knees seem to be playing up, maybe need to see a trick cyclist.