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From: raydu@ico.ISC.COM (Ray Dueland)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.chem,sci.med
Subject: Re: Butane death
Message-ID: <16129@vail.ICO.ISC.COM>
Date: 25 Sep 89 22:34:41 GMT
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In article <22452@cup.portal.com> James_J_Kowalczyk@cup.portal.com writes:
>[reason for inhaling Pam]
>Someone recently posted to rec.food.cooking that Pam contains alcohol
>(ethanol, I presume).  I have not confirmed this for myself, but it sounds
>plausible.  Snorting Pam?  Move over NyQuil-guzzling...

Reasonable idea, but it's not easy to become intoxicated by inhaling
ethanol.  I once had some ethanol boiling for some reason and decided
to try inhaling enough to feel the effects.  I tried pretty hard without
results.

I would imagine some type of freon propellant would be responsible for
the effects.

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Ray Dueland
raydu@ico.isc.com