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Rotter Posted 21 years ago
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Petrol sniffing

I just heard on BBC news a problem of petrol sniffing in Australia. Sniffing is like smelling.

What is petrol sniffing? I have never ever heard this.
  

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Hi, It's sniffing petrol fumes in order to get 'high' (which means to get a kind of drug effect in your brain). One of the side effects, I believe, is you do permanent damage to your brain. It's a pretty desperate thing to do.

  • Hi, It's sniffing petrol fumes in order to get 'high' (which means to get a kind of drug effect in your brain).
  • One of the side effects, I believe, is you do permanent damage to your brain.
  • It's a pretty desperate thing to do.
  • Other substances are commonly sniffed, too, such as glue.
  • I think you put petrol on a rag, put it in a plastic bag, and stick your face in.
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Hi,

It's sniffing petrol fumes in order to get 'high' (which means to get a kind of drug effect in your brain). One of the side effects, I believe, is you do permanent damage to your brain. It's a pretty desperate thing to do.

Other substances are commonly sniffed, too, such as glue.

I think you put petrol on a rag, put it in a plastic bag, and stick your face in.
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I think it's also sometimes called "huffing." It's the sort of thing that some people might do over and over, and others are killed or permanently brain-damaged on their first try.
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This was for the first time I heard the existence of such abuse. Everybody knows drug abuse, excessive alcohol consumption, smoking etc.

Inhaling petrol may be confine to Australia. Does it exist in the USA?
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well in my school there were girls like the smelling of petrol but not to addicting level.

and some of them like the smelling of glue!!

but i never heared about who kill him self with petrol!

is't kind of disease?
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I think I just read about sniffing petrol in a novel (thriller), or was it sniffing spray-paint? The result must be the same...
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Oh yes, solvent abuse...not uncommon. Very stupid.

In the UK you have to have proof of age (over 18) to buy anything with solvents now, like glue or even Tippex!
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Nona - what's Tippex?
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That's the whitish thing you spread on the paper when you've made a mistake; you can write again on it. It's also Tippex in Belgium, but "Blanco" in France.
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i think its 16 to buy solvents in the UK, I've never had any problems getting any and I'm 17 atm. Sniffing petrol is not fun, i accidentally inhaled the vapours not long ago when sucking through a tube to get the fuel moving when trying to drain the fuel tank on my microlight (very light aircraft).
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That's the whitish thing you spread on the paper when you've made a mistake; you can write again on it. It's also Tippex in Belgium, but "Blanco" in France.

Oh, thanks. That's called "white-out" here, or "correction fluid." I do remember hearing that middle school kids (about 12-15 years old) were sniffing it, although my own kids were never aware of it amo

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