There are products that are designed to be used by adults, those products can turn unsafe when used incorrectly especially by young children. Misuse of products can cause poisoning, injury, death or property damage. Even tough a warning has been stated in the package of the product, most of young children cannot yet read and most of them have habit to put anything into mouth.
There was a case where three children in New York mistaking air freshener for candy because the air freshener is packaged in a bag similar to candy snacks.
There is another misuse case of air freshener where a two year old was hospitalised after swallowing an air-freshening product.
Air fresheners are usually stored in the kitchen, bathroom, living room and even in the car, contain formaldehyde, petroleum distillates, p-dichlorobenzene, and aerosol propellants. It can irritate eyes, skin, and throat. In a study published last year in Environmental Health, women who use more household cleaning products, like air fresheners, doubled their risk of breast cancer.
and here is another example of air freshener that resembles candies in a jar
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