Xref: utzoo sci.bio:2347 sci.chem:502 sci.med:12496 Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!James_J_Kowalczyk From: James_J_Kowalczyk@cup.portal.com Newsgroups: sci.bio,sci.chem,sci.med Subject: Butane death Message-ID: <22452@cup.portal.com> Date: 23 Sep 89 10:08:30 GMT References: <4655@cps3xx.UUCP> <9977@multimax.Encore.COM> Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 19 devoz@multimax.UUCP (Joe DeVincentis,EFD TR 75S TR 4S TL> writes: >He had stolen a can of PAM cooking spray. Yup. No typos. He said that >they take a tube from an empty roll of toilet paper, stuff it with some >toilet paper, then spray the PAM in one end, inhaling from the other. > >I don't find this humorous in the least. Who figures these things out? >What's in this stuff? > >devoz 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... Jim James_J_Kowalczyk@cup.portal.com Kowalczyk@chemistry.utah.edu