Inhalants

As well, using inhalants was a way of expressing their anti-corporatist DIY (do it yourself) credo; by using inexpensive household products as inhalants, punks did not have to purchase industrially manufactured liquor or beer.

A 2013 survey of Wisconsin high school students showed that 6 percent reported having used inhalants in their lifetimes, according to a state Department of Health Services report.

Big Tobacco has experience in the field of inhalants and the ability to produce high-quality marijuana cigarettes.

Day fifteen off the nicotine inhalants.

Officers responded to a storage facility on Adams Street to find the couple using inhalants.

Classification Inhalants can be classified by the intended function.

Films A number of films have depicted or referred to the use of solvent inhalants.

In contrast, a few inhalants like amyl nitrate and diethyl ether have medical applications and are less harmful, though they are still dangerous when used recreationally.

Inhalants are referred to by bands from other genres, including several grunge bands—an early 1990s genre that was influenced by punk rock.

In the US, thirty-eight of 50 states have enacted laws making various inhalants unavailable to those under the age of 18, or making inhalant use illegal.

Product category Another way to categorize inhalants is by their product category.

Solvents A range of petroleum-based products that can be abused as inhalants.

Some states mandate laws against using these products for purposes of getting high, while some states have laws about possessing certain inhalants.

These groups almost always use inhalants at very high levels (Leal et al. 1978).