No. It's not for real. These are novelty/gag gifts produced in a run of 500 bottles, and it's picked up by the Daily Mail doing an article on Those Crazy Chin

No. It's not for real. These are novelty/gag gifts produced in a run of 500 bottles, and it's picked up by the Daily Mail doing an article on Those Crazy Chinese. They advertise about 150 breaths per $30 bottle. The notion that anyone is selling an actual air supply here to any substantial portion of the population is sensationalist in a fairly racist manner; Like http://gizmodo.com/5897678/chinas-urine-boiled-eggs-are-a-cultural-delicacy http://gizmodo.com/5897678/chinas-urine-boiled-eggs-are-a-cu... , a "hot commodity" consumed by a few hundred elderly people in one neighborhood of one city. Or the show at Wangfujing market in Beijing of skewered, roasted scorpions & seahorses, consumed exclusively by tourists. "Fast Food Beijing Style" - http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1041266/Scorpion-kebab--Its-fast-food-Beijing-style---But-Olympic-visitors-stomach-it.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1041266/Scorpion-keb... Generalizing an extremely rare cultural or entrepreneurial novelty over 1.36 billion people is somehow okay when the generalization level is "China". Not enough people know enough about China to understand that these exoticist stereotypes are not founded in statistics, but in a freak show / link bait mentality. . Take a statement which is more true than "Chinese people buy canned air": . "Crazy Americans Run Out Of Vomit, Have To Purchase Fake Vomit For Social Purposes" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_vomit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fake_vomit Has sold tens of thousands of units. Surprisingly, not a cultural touchstone. . "Americans So Oversexed They Require Penis Cage To Prevent Erections" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chastity_belt_(BDSM)#Chastity_cages https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chastity_belt_(BDSM)#Chastity_... Big deal in BDSM subculture. Not an "American" thing, though. . "Americans Are Now Buying Dedicated Cars To Use From Their Superyachts" http://www.wired.com/2015/11/marine-mono-supercar-superyacht/ http://www.wired.com/2015/11/marine-mono-supercar-superyacht... Technically true. But what does the headline imply?