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"Axe is one of my favorite things in life," says James Armstrong, 13, who included the body spray in a painting of things that are meaningful in his life. While preteen boys barely registered in the billion-dollar personal grooming market just a few years ago, analysts say younger and younger boys are snapping up body sprays in greater numbers than before. Armstrong is shown in Silver Spring, Md., where he attends school. (Washington Post photo by Bill O'Leary)

Sure, there’s the Axe effect. But, for some New York City middle school students, it included less fawning girls and more hospital visits.

TIME reports that eight students at Brooklyn's Medgar Evers College Preparatory School were hospitalized after a student sprayed Axe Body Spray in a classroom of students around 1 p.m. on Wednesday.

Emergency responders were sent to the school to investigate a "hazardous smell."

"EMS transported eight students to the hospital and parents of two students took them to their own doctor," said a statement from the Department of Education.

School officials are looking into disciplinary action.

Axe body spray was also the culprit in the hospitalization of a Pennsylvania high school student, according to Yahoo! News.

Officials at Bethlehem's Freedom High School asked students to stop wearing the scent at school in March.

Colorado State University-Pueblo student Christian Cunningham was arrested in October for allegedly setting fire to his dorm by creating a fireball with Axe and fuel.