Wite-Out + roses = death

[snopes]

Comment: A secretary was typing in an office, and using White-out, and
when her husband sent her a big bouquet of roses, the combination of
White-out fumes and rose scent caused her death.

It's not really all that new to me - I first heard the story a good 25
years ago - but I never knew whether or not it was true. People swore
they'd seen the news story.

[Avril]

You'd think, with the relative commonness of Wite-Out at a certain point, and the not-so-uncommonness of roses, we'd have heard of more than one death. There'd be a tragedy every secretary's day.

[Cervus]

Sounds like the old anti-drug scare tactics they used to keep us from huffing Wite-Out.

(Side note: isn't it odd how smell is linked to memory? I don't think I've used Wite-Out in 15 years, but I still recall exactly what it smells like. It had sort of a toxic "you shouldn't be sniffing me" smell to me.)

[Gutter Monkey]

I worked in IT at a telelphone exchange a few years ago and because they had so much equipment and chemicals in the building they were extremely strict about controlling the products and materials that entered the building. At one point they confiscated every wite-out bottle in the office and issued us all with a water-based equivalent. Apparently wite-out is still scary to some people!

Oh and the water-based correction fluid wasn't very good.