PRINTER'S NO. 3779
No. 704 Session of 2004
INTRODUCED BY BISHOP, SAINATO, CRUZ, CRAHALLA, KOTIK, GRUCELA,
GOOD, DONATUCCI, CORRIGAN, FRANKEL, GEIST, BELARDI, PISTELLA,
GEORGE, MANN, SOLOBAY, WOJNAROSKI, ROSS, WEBER, ROBERTS,
GINGRICH, WASHINGTON, HERSHEY, DeWEESE, LEDERER, LESCOVITZ,
JAMES, COLEMAN, PALLONE, PHILLIPS, SCAVELLO, SATHER, TIGUE,
DALEY, KILLION, KELLER, DiGIROLAMO, BELFANTI, E. Z. TAYLOR,
BEBKO-JONES, TRUE, HARHAI, MELIO, FABRIZIO, BROWNE, HESS,
JOSEPHS AND WATERS, APRIL 15, 2004
INTRODUCED AS NONCONTROVERSIAL RESOLUTION UNDER RULE 35,
APRIL 15, 2004
A RESOLUTION
1 Encouraging the Department of Health to commence an advertising
2 campaign targeted to this Commonwealth's youth setting forth
3 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 this Commonwealth's youth setting forth the dangers
7 associated with inhalant abuse.
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