Instead, many now contain things like household glues, aerosols, and other icky chemicals that were never intended to be consumed by humans. That is, they aren’t made with the same kind of nitrites as back in the day. Bad news for recreational drug users: Think twice before snorting poppers up your nose, lest you suffer from “sudden sniffing death.”Ī new study has found that poppers just ain’t what they used to be.