# Are Glow Sticks Safe?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-glow-sticks-safe/190489>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 23, 2003, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-glow-sticks-safe/190489 "2003-07-23T22:00:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Wolfrick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bb73d2/32.png) [@Wolfrick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolfrick)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-glow-sticks-safe/190489/21 "2003-07-27T15:23:33Z")

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Probably the greatest danger from glowsticks is the broken glass vial one finds inside an activated glowstick.

I remember a story of a schoolmate who decided to dump the contents of a glowstick into his mouth for shock value, and was not expecting the teaspoon of glass shards he got along with the glowing fluid.

~Wolfrick

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**Author:** ![handy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5a626/32.png) [@handy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handy)\
**Post date:** [July 27, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-glow-sticks-safe/190489/22 "2003-07-27T15:25:25Z")

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Our city puts on a festival each year & for dozens of years they used candles in paper lanterns with a perfect success rate. Someone figured that might not be too safe someday so they changed to glow sticks which put out a pathetic amount of light. This year they used flashlights, so I didn’t get to protest their use of glowsticks.

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