You get the same orange fumes from nitrous explosives. Nitrous oxides in air react to form nitric acid, very bad to breathe in. So I think this would be banned outside Russia.
A friend was once bothered by a kid on a trail bike outside his back fence. He asked me whether a .22 bullet could set off a petrol tank explosion. When I asked why he said "because I'm going to take pot shots at the little b.... but I don't want to kill him".