PRINTER'S NO. 2646
No. 419 Session of 2005
INTRODUCED BY BISHOP, LEDERER, SATHER, GRUCELA, CORRIGAN, GEIST,
DONATUCCI, LESCOVITZ, GEORGE, PALLONE, BEBKO-JONES, BELARDI,
BOYD, CALTAGIRONE, COHEN, CORNELL, CRAHALLA, CURRY,
DENLINGER, DeWEESE, FABRIZIO, FRANKEL, FREEMAN, GOOD,
GOODMAN, HENNESSEY, HERSHEY, JOSEPHS, KOTIK, LaGROTTA, MANN,
MARKOSEK, McGEEHAN, O'NEILL, PETRARCA, PISTELLA, REICHLEY,
SAINATO, SIPTROTH, STABACK, E. Z. TAYLOR, TIGUE, TRUE,
WOJNAROSKI, WALKO AND BLACKWELL, SEPTEMBER 12, 2005
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
SEPTEMBER 12, 2005
A RESOLUTION
1 Encouraging the Department of Health to commence an advertising
2 campaign targeted to the youth of this Commonwealth, setting
3 forth the dangers associated with inhalant abuse.
4 WHEREAS, Abuse of drugs such as marijuana is declining; and
5 WHEREAS, The effects of a 1990s advertising campaign credited
6 with reducing inhalant abuse among children are starting to
7 subside; and
8 WHEREAS, A new, younger generation is experimenting with
9 inhalants such as glue or nail polish; and
10 WHEREAS, Inhalants from glue to computer keyboard cleaners
11 are widely available, cheap, toxic and highly addictive; and
12 WHEREAS, Inhalant abuse damages the brain's white matter,
13 interferes with the ability to concentrate and readily impairs
14 cognition; and
15 WHEREAS, Inhalant abuse can cause immediate death from
1 arrhythmia or asphyxiation; and
2 WHEREAS, In 2003 there was a 14% increase in inhalant abuse
3 among eighth graders; therefore be it
4 RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives encourage the
5 Department of Health to commence an advertising campaign
6 targeted to the youth of this Commonwealth, setting forth the
7 dangers associated with inhalant abuse.
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