“A middle school in Portsmouth, R.I. recently sent parents an alarming e-mail about kids who are ‘snorting’ or ‘smoking’ Smarties, a silly fad in which kids grind up the tart candy into a fine powder, then blow out the vapor as if they were smoking. (Full disclosure: I used to do something similar when my breath would freeze on frosty mornings.) Yet everyone is worried. Portsmouth School Committee Chair Dave Croston asserts that the fad ‘would not be normal behavior’ (God forbid!), and raises the ‘troubling issue of modeling.’ The Smarties story is just one of a series of mini-panics about kids and substance abuse that seem to get recycled every few years.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2014/01/20/everybody-panic/
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