Many movies show actors ostensibly snorting cocaine or what have you with a straw. Extreme close ups certainly make it look like the powder goes up their nose(s).
What are they actually snorting and given how health conscious some people are (should be) is there any potential harm in what they snort?
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I’ve heard about a lot of different things being used, but I haven’t been on set for a shoot that involved this, so I can’t say from personal experience. Things I’ve heard of being used include:
powdered milk
Vitamin B12
flour
corn starch
lactose (baby laxative)
powdered sugar
Powdered milk and B12 are the 2 I hear most frequently, so I listed them up top.
For what IMDB is worth, it lists powdered milk as the coke of choice in the movie Blow
Sometimes they aren’t snorting anything. They can use a prop that has a vacuum to do the sucking, and they use camera angles to hide the contraption. Sometimes the actor exhales instead of inhales, and the line of coke disappears as they go, making it look like they are inhaling it.
An undercover cop once said in an interview that he slid his hand along and scooped up the coke and shoved it into his pocket.
I’ve never heard of lactose (milk sugar) as being described as “baby laxative”. Maybe the babies haven’t developed the ability to synthesize lactase?
Sorry, that should have been lactulose, not lactose.
Thank you - ignorance successfully fought - on this issue at least.
How come it’s okay to snort powdered milk or flour or powdered sugar up your nose? Doesn’t that give a lot of potential food to bacteria and encourage a sinus infection?
Or am I way off in my thinking on that?
Depends on when the movie was made. In the 80’s they might have used cocaine.