No, this is not Tuesday Humor or an April Fool. As the WSJ's China Real-Time blog reports [3], this is also not a scene from Spaceballs. In the smog-ridden city of Zhengzhou, a Henan-based travel company shipped 20 bright blue bags of fresh mountain air to show oxygen-deprived city residents what they’re missing. Of course, as we have noted previously, the canned-air idea is hardly unique to Henan [4]: Rags-to-riches Chinese tycoon Chen Guangbiao began selling such cans in 2012 [4].
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Smog sufferers reportedly wrung the blu ebags out in order to extract every last bit of fresh air possible...
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Though the cans seem a little easier to carry...
The cost: $0.80 for a can of fresh air.
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Nope, not a joke!