In a three-month span, two Leon County men died from inhaling nitrous oxide. One crashed into a signpost shortly after sniffing the gas. The other was found in bed with a bag over his head, a hose running from the bag to a nitrous oxide tank. Both were 22 years old. But parents of young children shouldn't think that huffing inhalants is only a college-age phenomenon.
Young kids do it, too.
Parents think it was a fad, like sniffing glue back in the 1950s. They aren't aware that there are 1,000 products out there that their kids can use. And they can be deadly. Like many parents, his mother, Jancie Ter Louw, said she didn't know much about inhalants. But I never dealt with inhalants.