'Huffing' Can Kill Your Child

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Abuse of inhalants by middle school children has increased by up to 44 percent over a two-year period, according to a new data analysis conducted by the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.

The data is taken from the Partnership's most recent national survey on drug use, and shows that over the past two years, inhalant abuse increased by 18 percent (from 22 to 26 percent) among 8th graders and by 44 percent (from 18 to 26 percent) among 6th graders.

Inhalant abuse is commonly known as "huffing" and as CBS News Correspondent Mika Brzezinski reports, it can have tragic consequences:

Toy Slayton's teenage son, Johnson Bryant, had a bright future.

He got good grades at an exclusive private school and by sophomore year had made the varsity football team. He looked as healthy and normal and beautiful as any mother would want her son to be.

"Kids make bad choices. And this one cost him his life," Slayton said.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/01/eveningnews/main620528.shtml

Isn't it common sense that a fresh (God's) plant grown in God's Earth with water and sunshine would be much healthier to 'Puff' than a bunch inorganic compounds bonded by DuPont Chemical?