Our research has taught us this phenomenon is happening across the country and is the subject of many You-Tube videos. Recently, we have experienced an unsafe, new trend among our middle school students - smoking or snorting the candy, Smarties. Important Health Information for Parents Regarding the Candy, Smarties
The latest recurrence of interest in the purported Smarties-snorting craze was prompted by a January 2014 notice issued to parents about this “unsafe, new trend among students” and the risks thereof by Portsmouth Middle School in Rhode Island:
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“Snorting” Smarties is something many youngsters across the years have engaged in once or twice as a lark or a dare, but as with so many other similar “look at this terrible thing kids these days are doing” warnings propagated by adults, the instances of kids talking about snorting Smarties, school administrators issuing dire warnings about it, and inventive youngsters posting videos about how to do it all appear to vastly outstrip the real-world incidence of the phenomenon. Some children have even taken to snorting it, all to the horror of parents, teachers and the 60-year-old company that manufactures the candy.
But at other schools and across the Internet, “smoking Smarties,” as the activity has been labeled, is gaining popularity. The fad at Summit Middle School died down after a few days and some harsh words from the lunchroom staff. “My biggest concern was that they would aspirate the wrapper or a whole Smarties and it would be a choking hazard.” “It was freaky,” says Corinne McGrew, a nurse for Summit School District.
They crushed it into a fine powder in its wrapper, tore off one end, poured the powder into their mouths and blew out fine Smarties dust, mimicking a smoker’s exhale. Students who smoke cigarettes are suspended.īut when a lunchtime crew of sixth-graders last fall started “smoking” Smarties, the tart, chalky candy discs wrapped in cellophane, lunchroom monitors and the school nurse were flummoxed. Summit Middle School in Frisco, Colo., is a tobacco-free campus.
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