text: is this considered petrol sniffing? some kids on my bus today said they worked with gas in auto tech class around 3 hours ago. on the bus they were sniffing their fingers since they smelled like gas and were saying they were getting high. then they started to act all funny. we went into a debate that they were just faking it, is this even considered petrol sniffing? their hands did smell like petrol, but i didnt know what to say! i doubt it.  you can get high off of smelling a permenent marker for hours.  although some people like the smell of it, if they smell the marker, they aren't getting high, you need to really work at it.  same applies for this situation i believe.