naturalplastic wrote:
And if you can get Americans to buy bottled tap water with fancy French names on the label (or maybe that stuff really does come from special spring in the Alps, doesn't really change the point) then it is hardly surprising that the Chinese will pay money for cans of exotic air to breathe.
In China currently there is a huge demand for fresh produce from Australia and New Zealand including things like milk powder/baby formula owing to past contamination issues due to lack of adequate quality control.
The "fresh air" con is banking on the desperation and ignorance of people languishing in polluted cities breathing soot laden air to think they can refresh their lungs with a can. I can partially understand selling
large cylinders of unpolluted air for children to breath after school but I'm sure somebody in China will have thought of that already.