Cabinet looks at glue sniffing
PA Wellington The problem of children sniffing glue has reached such “epidemic proportions” that a Cabinet committee will study what can be done to ease the problem. The Prime Minister, Sir Robert Muldoon, said yesterday that the Cabinet committee on health and social welfare would bring together all the information from Government departments and see if there were some remedies. He said it was an extremely difficult problem and that glue sniffing was not an offence.
“They are using things that are commercial comodities that have other uses, but we have to try to do something because the damage to health is very, very great indeed?* Further report, page 19
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