The mania or obsession of smelling gasoline, and other people's farts. Many people are in denial, but they do this to see if every fart smells the same.
"Deep down inside, people like to smell other people's farts! Plplplplpl!!!! I just farted **sniff sniff ** Yeah! you did!!!"
---Eddie Murphy ----"Eddie Murphy - Delirious 1984"
Gastroparesis is a condition that affects the normal spontaneous contractions of the muscles in the human stomach, that propel food through to the smallintestine.
He couldn't eat because he is suffering from gastroparesis.