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To the Editor.— We read with interest the article entitled Sudden Death in Adolescents Resulting From the Inhalation of Typewriter Correction Fluid 1 in the March 15,1985, issue of JAMA . Your readers should be made aware that children perverting the use of commercially available consumer products (sniffing) has become a worldwide problem. A recent issue of the British Medical Journal 2 reported 282 deaths in the United Kingdom from abuse of volatile substances during 1971 to 1983. The substances abused were gas fuels (24%), aerosol sprays (17% ), solvents in glue (27%), and other volatile substances such as cleaning agents (31%). In 51% of the cases the authors reported that death was attributed to the direct toxic effects of the substances abused. Therefore, we must disagree with the authors. There is nothing unique about correction fluid deaths when the product's use is perverted. There appears to be a gasoline sniffing epidemic
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