Editing Inhalant (section)

===Films===
A number of films have depicted or referred to the use of solvent inhalants. In the 1968 film ''[[How Sweet It Is!]]'', Grif Henderson ([[James Garner]]), refers to him and his young son once making model aeroplanes together, but says, "...now all he wants to do is sniff the glue". The 1980 comedy film ''[[Airplane!]]'', the character of McCroskey ([[Lloyd Bridges]]) refers to his inhalant use when he states, "I picked the wrong week to quit sniffing glue." In the 1996 film ''[[Citizen Ruth]]'', the character Ruth ([[Laura Dern]]), a homeless drifter, is depicted inhaling [[patio sealant]] from a paper bag in an alleyway. In the tragicomedy ''[[Love Liza]]'', the main character, played by [[Philip Seymour Hoffman]], plays a man who takes up building remote-controlled airplanes as a hobby to give him an excuse to sniff the fuel in the wake of his wife's suicide.

[[Harmony Korine]]'s 1997 ''[[Gummo]]'' depicts adolescent boys inhaling contact cement for a high. Edet Belzberg's 2001 documentary ''[[Children Underground]]'' chronicles the lives of Romanian street children addicted to inhaling paint. In ''[[The Basketball Diaries (film)|The Basketball Diaries]]'', a group of boys is huffing Carbona cleaning liquid at 3 minutes and 27 seconds into the movie; further on, a boy is reading a diary describing the experience of sniffing the cleaning liquid.

In the [[David Lynch]] film ''[[Blue Velvet (film)|Blue Velvet]]'', the bizarre and manipulative character played by [[Dennis Hopper]] uses a mask to inhale amyl nitrite.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Becoming film literate : the art and craft of motion pictures|last=LoBrutto, Vincent|date=2005|publisher=Praeger|isbn=0-313-08868-3|location=Westport, Connecticut|oclc=191734019}}</ref> In ''[[Little Shop of Horrors (1986 film)|Little Shop of Horrors]]'', [[Steve Martin]]'s character dies from nitrous oxide inhalation. The 1999 independent film ''[[Boys Don't Cry (1999 film)|Boys Don't Cry]]'' depicts two young low-income women inhaling [[aerosol computer cleaner]] (compressed gas) for a buzz. In ''[[The Cider House Rules (film)|The Cider House Rules]]'', [[Michael Caine]]'s character is addicted to inhaling ether vapors.

In ''[[Thirteen (2003 film)|Thirteen]]'', the main character, a teen, uses a can of aerosol computer cleaner to get high. In the action movie ''[[Shooter (2007 film)|Shooter]]'', an ex-serviceman on the run from the law ([[Mark Wahlberg]]) inhales nitrous oxide gas from a number of Whip-It! whipped cream canisters until he becomes unconscious. The South African film ''[[The Wooden Camera]]'' also depicts the use of inhalants by one of the main characters, a homeless teen, and their use in terms of socio-economic stratification. The title characters in ''[[Samson and Delilah (2009 film)|Samson and Delilah]]'' sniff petrol; in Samson's case, possibly causing brain damage.

In the 2004 film ''[[Taxi (2004 film)|Taxi]]'', [[Queen Latifah]] and [[Jimmy Fallon]] are trapped in a room with a burst tank containing nitrous oxide. Queen Latifah's character curses at Fallon while they both laugh hysterically. Fallon's character asks if it is possible to die from nitrous oxide, to which Queen Latifah's character responds with "It's laughing gas, stupid!" Neither of them had any side effects other than their voices becoming much deeper while in the room.

In the French horror film ''[[Them (2006 film)|Them]]'' (2006), a French couple living in Romania are pursued by a gang of street children who break into their home at night. Olivia Bonamy's character is later tortured and forced to inhale [[aurolac]] from a silver-colored bag. During a flashback scene in the 2001 film ''[[Hannibal (2001 film)|Hannibal]]'', Hannibal Lecter gets Mason Verger high on amyl nitrite poppers, then convinces Verger to cut off his own face and feed it to his dogs.