Xref: utzoo sci.bio:2353 sci.chem:505 sci.med:12538 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ico!vail!raydu 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 References: <4655@cps3xx.UUCP> <9977@multimax.Encore.COM> <22452@cup.portal.com> Reply-To: raydu@ico.ISC.COM (Ray Dueland) Organization: Interactive Systems Corp., Boulder CO Lines: 17 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. -- Ray Dueland raydu@ico.isc.com