Author Topic: Damn Big Brother! First Bongs...now THIS! (Read 843 times)

Ripsnort · « **on:** March 14, 2003, 07:57:07 AM »

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/ap20030314_352.html

A renewed effort is under way to warn the next generation of teenagers about the risks of using inhalants such as glue, spray paint or markers.

GD Ashcroft and our rights as citizens going down the toilet! Grrrrr!:mad:

Eagler · « **Reply #1 on:** March 14, 2003, 08:18:46 AM »

LOL

yes I agree the young rocket scientist should be free to inhale anything their burnt brains desire....
wouldn't want them breeding in later years anyway..

john9001 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 14, 2003, 08:29:51 AM »

i think the problem with sniffing glues, paints,freon,etc is that todays kids don't know the difference between getting "high" and getting dizzy from breathing poison. that dizzy spell is the first stage of death.

ra · « **Reply #3 on:** March 14, 2003, 08:31:02 AM »

gloo am gud.

hawk220 · « **Reply #4 on:** March 14, 2003, 08:44:08 AM »

Hay-seus H! kids start this crap at 12? I don't think I had a clue what drugs were at 12.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #5 on:** March 14, 2003, 08:45:47 AM »

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Originally posted by hawk220
Hay-seus H! kids start this crap at 12? I don't think I had a clue what drugs were at 12.

We saw a couple of "Drug" films in 1972 in 6th grade prior to moving onto Junior High school.. one stands out in particular, it was about a guy who does Meth and races dragsters...all actors, but the effect was there. I think it got more kids curious than it did deter them.

Eagler · « **Reply #6 on:** March 14, 2003, 08:45:59 AM »

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Originally posted by hawk220
Hay-seus H! kids start this crap at 12? I don't think I had a clue what drugs were at 12.

& at 18 they register as democrats

straffo · « **Reply #7 on:** March 14, 2003, 08:52:33 AM »

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One of them was Christopher Johnson Bryant, a 17-year-old high school student in Tennessee who died in 2001 from inhaling two cans of butane he had bought from a local store.

I guess that Bryant does not mean brilliant

(sorry for the cheap joke but it sound the same in Freedom ...err French

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slimm50 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 14, 2003, 09:03:29 AM »

"Inhalants were blamed for the deaths of more than 700 teenagers between 1994 and 2001,.....One of them was Christopher Johnson Bryant, a 17-year-old high school student in Tennessee who died in 2001 from inhaling two cans of butane he had bought from a local store."

I don't want my gov't spending public money on things that really are the responsibility of the parents/gaurdians, or to protect us from ourselves. I look at it this way: when stupid people do stupid thingsthat result in their demise, it strengthens the gene pool.

I know, I'm a heartless bastage.

Sandman · « **Reply #9 on:** March 14, 2003, 09:22:25 AM »

Not to sound heartless... but are we getting our panties in a bunch over 0.00025% of the U.S. population?

Unintentional injuries are the leading cause of death in children. Automobile accidents fall under this category. In 1998, 5606 teenagers and 2027 children lost their lives in auto accidents.

Second on the list is drowning. (940 in 1998).

Each year in the United States, 200,000 preschool and elementary school children visit emergency departments for injuries sustained on playground equipment (about 1 injury every 2½ minutes).

Ripsnort · « **Reply #10 on:** March 14, 2003, 09:26:51 AM »

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Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
Each year in the United States, 200,000 preschool and elementary school children visit emergency departments for injuries sustained on playground equipment (about 1 injury every 2½ minutes).

And that stat is acutally down since the Gov't required all swimming pool manufacturers to have clear labels on their pools.

midnight Target · « **Reply #11 on:** March 14, 2003, 09:37:55 AM »

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Originally posted by Ripsnort
And that stat is acutally down since the Gov't required all swimming pool manufacturers to have clear labels on their pools.

Are pools considered "playground equipment" where you live?

Batz · « **Reply #12 on:** March 14, 2003, 09:51:18 AM »

When I was in the Navy in "A" school my room mate died from freon inhalation. He appeared "addicted" as he spent money and or stole to get various things to inhale. He stole a freon tank from a mantainence closet and spent the night inhaling the crap. We found him dead in his bunk the next morning covered in puke with the nozzle in his hand. His skin was grey and his lips were blue. He had urinated all over himself too and the smell was awefull.

The crap people pull just to get a buzz....

He just turned 19 3 weeks before.

He would inhale gasoline, paint, butane etc.........

john9001 · « **Reply #13 on:** March 14, 2003, 09:57:38 AM »

freon displaces oxygen in your blood , sure way to die.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #14 on:** March 14, 2003, 10:07:34 AM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
Are pools considered "playground equipment" where you live?

Those too. And there is a safety standards they must pass as well. Big Gov't is good in some aspects such as safety of the masses, bad in other respects. Personally, I see this as good.