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[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 93 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

They check ID for compressed air? Where is this?

Now something like 99.99% alcohol electronics cleaner I would understand because people use it to cut meth or some other wild shit.

[–] MeDuViNoX@sh.itjust.works 94 points 2 months ago (3 children)
[–] Dave2@lemmy.blahaj.zone 95 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Causes instant death but also addiction? They resurrect me and I immediately go for another can of air duster.

[–] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

I guess being dead was just better.

[–] Scubus@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago

High so addictive not even death results in ingervention

[–] Zoot@reddthat.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Totally guessing but im sure its similar to people saying "Try coke once and you could die!". Technically true, if your coke is laced with Fent. Maybe get too high of a concentration in your air duster and you simply die?

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

Guessing some people suffocate, they get too high, keep huffing and forget to breathe.

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

*not always all at once

[–] jbk@discuss.tchncs.de 63 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Is it maybe an US-exclusive thing? Due to less stricter regulations maybe? I'm from Europe and no compressed air was 18+ or had warning signs like "causes instant death"

[–] jaybone@lemmy.world 29 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably because you can buy beer at 16, so no one is trying to get high on office supplies.

[–] Sparky@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Not Europe but here in Norway I do see people huffing nitrous oxide. We do have a legal drinking age of 18 tho

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 11 points 2 months ago

Nitrous is not comparable to air dusters

[–] superkret@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

And a beer at the supermarket costs the equivalent of $18.

I'm in the US and haven't bought compressed air recently, but I definitely didn't need to present ID the last time I did.

This article says 38 states have age restrictions, but after a brief search, I couldn't find any evidence for this in my state (Utah). It's illegal to use it to get high and to sell it to someone with the understanding that they'll use it to get high. But now I'm curious, I'll have to ask the next time I'm at a store that sells it.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

A DuPont study tried HFC-152a and HFC-134a on rats, dogs, and humans for time periods of up to three months with a followup examination 2 years with no adverse effects. LINK

I'm sure this has nothing to do with the USA'S proposed ban DFE last month despite it functioning as a zero-potential for ozone-depletions alternative to CFCs.

That red line you drew could just be explained by market availability of the new Aerosol that convienently excludes the CFC equivalents which existed before and were banned.