


It may seem harmless, but inhaling Smarties powder results in the candy entering the sniffer’s lungs. “I said, What made you so curious about it? And he said her reaction was like, Wooo!”Īccording to 11Alive, inhaling the candy causes students to feel a sugar rush and makes users feel as if they’re going to sneeze. He’d watched her crush it up and inhale it,” she told 11Alive. “He told me he had witnessed a student in class, he had actually watched her. According to the boy’s mother, her son was only following the example set by other students. This may sound like a freak occurrence, or merely the case of one overly curious child, but sniffing powdered candy, or pretending to “smoke it” by blowing the powder through a tube, has become something of a trend in schools across the nation. No word on whether or not he sniffed the Smarties through a Twizzler. Follow drugs out of schools is hard enough, but officials at one school are finding they need to stop children from huffing candy as well.ġ1Alive, an NBC Atlanta affiliate, reports that a 9-year-old student at Porterdale Elementary School has been suspended for two days after he was caught crushing up Smarties candy and inhaling the powder through his nose.
