# Perri-Air comes to China **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 1, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perri-air-comes-to-china/649041 "2013-02-01T16:13:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perri-air-comes-to-china/649041/1 "2013-02-01T16:13:21Z")
This is one of those cases where you have to look and see if one of those professional pranksters is around. Apparently China has started selling canned fresh air: [http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=china-resorting-to-canned-air-becau-2013-01](http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=china-resorting-to-canned-air-becau-2013-01) > [@](#): > > Chinese entrepreneur Chen Guangbiao has launched a line of canned air for the Chinese market, to give people something to breathe that isn’t the smog-filled Beijing air. Guangbiao, a billionaire who has become known for his stunts, is selling the product to bring more attention to the problems of pollution in China: > > It comes with atmospheric flavours including pristine Tibet, post-industrial Taiwan and revolutionary Yan’an, the Communist Party’s early base area. > > Chen said he wanted to make a point that China’s air was turning so bad that the idea of bottled fresh air is no longer fanciful. > > “If we don’t start caring for the environment then after 20 or 30 years our children and grandchildren might be wearing gas masks and carry oxygen tanks,” said Chen. It’s in lpots of respectable news outlets. Evidently Chen is the “pranksdter”, if you take the stories straight, trying to bring attention to the problem, which has been making the news even without him. But I can’t help thinking of **SpaceBalls** https://www.youtube.com/embed/SiabeNR_q0U?feature=oembed&wmode=opaque ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perri-air-comes-to-china/649041/2 "2013-02-01T17:55:38Z")
It’s on Yahoo News now: [http://news.yahoo.com/video/chinese-billionaire-sells-canned-air-154152541.html](http://news.yahoo.com/video/chinese-billionaire-sells-canned-air-154152541.html) ’ ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perri-air-comes-to-china/649041/3 "2013-02-01T18:08:07Z")
OK, but this isn’t new. A while back, after the Pet Rock phenomenon I saw cans of fresh air on sale in North America supposedly from, I dunno, the Arctic, and Greenland, and places. Although I suspect while we treated it as a novelty fad perhaps the Chinese are taking it a bit more seriously, shall we say. ---
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perri-air-comes-to-china/649041/4 "2013-02-01T18:29:18Z")
Laugh now but beware if China’s new line of warships come shaped as vacuum cleaners ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2013, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perri-air-comes-to-china/649041/5 "2013-02-01T18:56:13Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > Laugh now but beware if China’s new line of warships come shaped as vacuum cleaners Don’t worry, our special forces can switch them from suck to blow.