"Stop the Proto, It Blows Your Brain!": the City of Tours Bans the Use of Hilarious Gas and Launches an Awareness Campaign

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The consumption of nitrous oxide, or hilarious gas, has grown so much in recent months that the city of Tours has just taken a decision to strengthen the regulation in its territory. At the same time, it is launching an awareness campaign to alert young people about the risks to their health.

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It's the gas that makes it possible to get the chantilly out of the bomboons you buy in the supermarket. Nitrogen protoxide also has the ability to make you laugh in an uncontrolled way, hence its nickname of hilarious gas. And it's very easy to get from it, even for miners. Result: there are more and more people who are trying to experience it, which is not without risk to health, especially mental. Moreover, the containers used are often aband…