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 | | In 1959, I was on rewrite duty for the Miami Herald when the police reporter called to report, along with the usual car accidents and gambling raids, that police were encountering a new form of drug abuse: teenagers sniffing the fumes of model airplane glue from paper bags. |
 | | Never having heard of such a thing, I dismissed the matter as unimportant and didn't bother the city desk with it. |
 | | Several years passed before glue sniffing in particular and drug abuse in general among the young became recognized as a social problem. |
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