Editing Inhalant (section)

===Music and musical culture===
One of the early musical references to inhalant use occurs in the 1974 [[Elton John]] song "[[The Bitch Is Back]]", in the line "I get high in the evening sniffing pots of glue." Inhalant use, especially glue-sniffing, is widely associated with the late-1970s [[Punk subculture|punk]] youth subculture in the UK and North America. Raymond Cochrane and Douglas Carroll claim that when glue sniffing became widespread in the late 1970s, it was "adopted by punks because public [negative] perceptions of sniffing fitted in with their self-image" as rebels against societal values.<ref name="Cochrane-Carroll">Raymond Cochrane, Douglas Carroll, ''Psychology and Social Issues: A Tutorial Text'', published 1991, Routledge 227 pages {{ISBN|1-85000-836-1}}</ref> While punks at first used inhalants "experimentally and as a cheap high, adult disgust and hostility [to the practice] encouraged punks to use glue sniffing as a way of shocking society." As well, using inhalants was a way of expressing their anti-corporatist [[Do it yourself|DIY]] (do it yourself) credo;<ref name="Cochrane-Carroll"/> by using inexpensive household products as inhalants, punks did not have to purchase industrially manufactured liquor or beer.
[[File:GutterPunksDecaturStreet2002.jpg|thumb|right|The [[punk subculture]], in which members may live in [[squatting|squats]] or [[homelessness|on the street]], has been associated with "glue sniffing" since its inception.]]
One history of the punk subculture argues that "substance abuse was often referred to in the music and did become synonymous with the genre, glue-sniffing especially" because the youths' "faith in the future had died and that the youth just didn't care anymore" due to the "awareness of the threat of nuclear war and a pervasive sense of doom." In a BBC interview with a person who was a punk in the late 1970s, they said that "there was a real fear of imminent [[nuclear war]]—people were sniffing glue knowing that it could kill them, but they didn't care because they believed that very soon everybody would be dead anyway."

A number of 1970s [[punk rock]] and 1980s [[hardcore punk]] songs refer to inhalant use. The [[Ramones]], an influential early US punk band, referred to inhalant use in several of their songs. The song "[[Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue]]" describes adolescent boredom, and the song "Carbona not Glue" states, "My brain is stuck from shooting glue." An influential punk [[fanzine]] about the subculture and music took its name (''[[Sniffin' Glue]]'') from the Ramones song. The 1980s punk band [[The Dead Milkmen]] wrote a song, "Life is Shit" from their album ''[[Beelzebubba]]'', about two friends hallucinating after sniffing glue. Punk-band-turned-hip-hop group the [[Beastie Boys]] penned a song "Hold it Now – Hit It", which includes the line "cause I'm beer drinkin, breath stinkin, sniffing glue." Their song "Shake Your Rump" includes the lines, "Should I have another sip no skip it/In the back of the ride and bust with the whippits". [[Pop punk]] band [[Sum 41]] wrote a song, "[[Fat Lip]]", which refers to a character who does not "make sense from all the gas you be huffing..." The song "Lança-Perfume", written and performed by Brazilian pop star [[Rita Lee]], became a national hit in 1980. The song is about chloroethane and its widespread recreational sale and use during the rise of Brazil's carnivals.

Inhalants are referred to by bands from other genres, including several [[grunge]] bands—an early 1990s genre that was influenced by punk rock. The 1990s [[grunge]] band [[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]], which was influenced by punk music, penned a song, "[[Dumb (Nirvana song)|Dumb]]", in which [[Kurt Cobain]] sings "my heart is broke / But I have some glue / help me inhale / And mend it with you". [[L7 (band)|L7]], an all-female grunge band, penned a song titled "Scrap" about a skinhead who inhales spray-paint fumes until his mind "starts to gel". Also in the 1990s, the [[Britpop]] band [[Suede (band)|Suede]] had a UK hit with their song "[[Animal Nitrate]]" whose title is a thinly veiled reference to [[amyl nitrite]]. The [[Beck]] song "Fume" from his "Fresh Meat and Old Slabs" release is about inhaling [[nitrous oxide]]. Another Beck song, "Cold Ass Fashion", contains the line "O.G. – Original Gluesniffer!" [[Primus (band)|Primus]]'s 1999 song "[[Lacquer Head]]" is about adolescents who use inhalants to get high. [[Hip hop]] performer [[Eminem]] wrote a song, "Bad Meets Evil", which refers to breathing "... ether in three lethal amounts." The Brian Jonestown Massacre, a retro-rock band from the 1990s, has a song, "Hyperventilation", which is about sniffing model-airplane cement. Frank Zappa's song "Teenage Wind" from 1981 has a reference to glue sniffing: "Nothing left to do but get out the 'ol glue; Parents, parents; Sniff it good now..."