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First, you make it trivial to consume an arbitrary amount of poison(and make it tastily fragrant too!), and then you're all curious why kids are dying because of overdosing.
Mostly it'll be because parents aren't putting stuff out of the reach of children.
How many cases of overdose child deaths do we have with benzin? Zero +- epsilon? Why? Nobody is "putting it out of the reach of children". I know why: it doesn't smell tasty and concentration is low enough to cause vomiting before the lethal dose. You know, like cigarettes. A rare kid would force itself to smoke more than a few. And it won't kill it anyway.
Benzin - like petrol? Yes, I don't know anyone who leaves petrol lying around for kids to play with. I keep any spare petrol I have outside the home in a garage out of reach of my children because that's sensible. I do the same with medication and unsafe cleaning products. This is parenting 101.