Coroner gives solvent advice
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Your support makes all the difference.A coroner yesterday urged parents to warn their children of the dangers of solvent abuse.
The York coroner, Donald Coverdale, issued the warning when he recorded a verdict of accidental death on a seven-year-old boy who is believed to have been Britain's youngest victim of solvent abuse.
He said the case of Christopher Smith, from York - who inhaled a tyre repair glue known as Special Cement which contained the deadly chemical trichloroethylene - showed that children were never too young to be told of the dangers of glue sniffing.
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