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Mon 6 Oct, 2003 08:17 am
Oxygen not booze draw students to local bar
LINCOLN, Nebraska (AP) -- There was no chance of students getting drunk by bellying up to a bar on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus.
The bar was serving bottled oxygen, not booze.
"I'm not wasted," UNL student Tim Randall, 23, said after inhaling 97-percent pure oxygen for about five minutes. "I'm more relaxed."
Students lined up for the chance to sit at one of three stools at student union Wednesday and inhale the oxygen scented with one of 12 aromas, including lavender, vanilla and strawberry.
"It smelled like incense," Randall said.
As an added option, students could also use earphones that played a monotone sound meant to block outside distractions, or wear sunglasses fitted with tiny lights that blink.
The sounds and lights are designed to help with relaxation, said Broderick Thompson, an employee of TjohnE, the Grand Rapids, Michigan, company that was running the bar.
"What you want to do is close your eyes and relax your head," Thompson told the throng of students waiting for their turn.
As so often has been said anything can be sold to the American public.
I have heard about the oxygen bars in Japana while ago, but they're always miles ahead of everyone!
What did P.T. Barnum say.
I wonder how much they are charged.
Here's the answer, mac :wink: :
You can breathe easy for 50 cents a minute
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Oxygen bars are found in a surprising variety of businesses, says Cullin Cameron, owner and founder of Oasis, a major supplier of oxygen bar equipment based in Sarasota, Fla. Nightclubs and huge Las Vegas casinos picked them up first, he said, but now they're used in coffee shops, doctor's offices and day spas.
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About five years there were some oxygen bars in Seattle and some of the malls also had kiosks. I don't think there are any left. Too bad -- I'd like a "hit" of straight oxygen every now and then! I never tried the flavored type. Wish I had.
The first one opened in Germany about 4 years ago - I don't think, any has survived until now.
(But I'm sure: if this gets trendy again in the USA .....)
I heard it really doesn't do anything.
Hence the shops disappear, only to turn up in... where? Nebraska?
Piffka wrote:Hence the shops disappear, only to turn up in... where? Nebraska?
Nope, Tulsa.
One opened about a half mile from my house this time last year. Caters to twentysomethings. (To Joe Nation: it's in Brookside, across from where S&J used to be. You know the strip.)
Nobody expects it to last.
the ones here seem to have vanished, to be replaced by bubble tea bars.
They're already in LA, Miami and Vegas amongst other places.
Your body is adapted through millions of years of evolution to utilize 21% oxygen (such as is the atmosphere). At this percentage, your blood is saturated with every breath (i.e. no MORE O2 can be put into it), and thus oxygen bars are bogus.
In fact, they might cause some damage. Too much oxygen, and you can form some neat-o free radicals, such as superoxides... we've all heard of free radicals, haven't we? They are not good.
Oxygen bars are a scam. The only time it is necessary is if there is actual damage to the lungs, or in hyperbaric chambers for burn victims.
The only reason they are getting a buzz is because of the breathing apparatus. Breathe into a paper bag for a minute and you'll get a buzz - doesn't mean it's good for you (Hello marketing scam)
Caveat Emptor
There was a reason the Romans inscribed that over the entrances to the markets in the Forum . . .
The BBC reported last December about Russia:
Health revolution hits Russia
... and in September 1998 about India
Health Fresh air - at a price
A website about the 150 years of "Qxygen Therapy", from 1999
Curiosities, Quackeries, and Other Historical Trivia
Absolute absurdity.
Here's an experiment for everyone to try:
Deep breaths, all the way in slowly, and all the way out, slowly.... about a dozen breaths.
Feel energized? Now, instead of taking shots out of an oxygen mask -which regulates your breathing - you can have the same effect without the risk of damaging free radicals.
A friend of mine did the oxygen thing for a while. Then he lit a cigarette and...
One of these popped up in San Francisco a decade ago. Course, the man came down on it, and now all you can get is crappy contraband oxygen on the street, and it's cut with, I dunno, about 80% nitrogen. Such a bummer, man.
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