Sounds harsh but you need a few deaths to scare people away from this kind of thing. Otherwise they just think adults are being boring and trying to stop their fun.

something i have been suspecting for a while. stop kids drinking and you will push them back to the 80's when it was commonly used. politicians keep going on about raising the price of beer in supermarkets to stop kids drinking..what price bostic?

Not acknowledged - EVERYONE daily is inadvertently subjected to high volumes of these solvents given the ingredients in personal products, airfreshners and cleaning agents. Due to the nature of advertising - people wrongly presume they are safe or innocuous. Unfortunately regarding solvent abuse, most people wrongly presume it’s the propellant rather than the ingredients in the above products.

Even the NHS comments that 68 % of 6m people with asthma and allergies (that they are aware of) were sensitised to perfumes and other chemicals. Concerningly terpenes of ‘natural’ essential oils have in particular high emission of linalool, eucalyptol, D-limonene, r-cymene and terpinene-4-ol-l and contributed to increasing indoor secondary pollutants such as formaldehyde (a carcinogen) and form further harmful aerosols in the presence of common ozone. (Su et al 2006, CARB research etc).

Other research acknowledges exposure to fragrance and essential oils from the air not only induces contact allergies, but also worsened respiratory problems including decrease of pulmonary function and increase of chest tightness, wheezing and exacerbates asthma. International work on indoor pollutants found these to be was much higher and harmful than outside the home, products are still freely marketed despite this and are only just being acknowledged by governments to being NOT or inadequately regulated, look at health statistics and it becomes very apparent to how inadequate.

The American EPA in 1991 showed these products to contain carcinogens, mutagens, hormone disruptors (endocrine) and sentitisers, but only in the recent couple of years is European REACH initiatives NOW putting the onus on the chemical industry and is starting to do something about it; industry, government and advertising would have you believe otherwise – NO problem just unhealthy populations, industry is profitable so why would we want safer products !