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All I need is the air that you brea

2007 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance

Darwin says, "Thanks for the submission. Hmmm. Definitely stupid."
"Laughing gas" or nitrous oxide, has been sold in clubs in the uk for a good few years. However as with all gas not over doing it is key.

The UK medicines watchdog, the MHRA (Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency), has warned regular use of the gas can cause lasting health damage.

The MHRA's head of criminal investigations, Danny Lee Frost, warned:"It causes hypoxia which drives oxygen out of the body. And there is some suggestion that it can cause brain damage."

We all know oxygen is quit important to live, well most of us.

Last year Daniel Watts, a 23-year-old company director, suffocated to death while taking laughing gas.

His body was discovered next to a large cylinder of nitrous oxide. He had put a bag over his head to concentrate the fumes.

Did he ever read the warnings on shopping bags as a child?

Submitted on 04/19/2007

Submitted by: Lee McGovern
Reference: http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1261290,00.html

Copyright © 2007 DarwinAwards.com

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Chip said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
Let me understand this... A 23 year old man, a company director and therefore supposedly a man of some intelligence , puts a plastic bag over his head to fill his lungs and brain with nitrous oxide and subsequently dies (laughing from laughing gas?). I think this one qualifies for an award! Thanks for sending this one in Lee!

Bruce said:
Definitely Keep: Darwin Award
Sounds to me like the MHRA has definitive proof that nitrous oxide causes (fatal) brain damage. Thanks, Lee!

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