It is the latest way to get drunk and above leaves no hangover. The "oxy shots" or inhaled alcohol shots have become a dangerous trend in Mallorca which consists of inhaling alcohol through a tube for only 4 euros, and the Balearic Government and have been curbed. The device does is convert the alcohol vapor, rather than drunk, inhaled, and enhances their effects. Such is the degree of alarm that is generating this new fashion that the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare Balearic Government, in collaboration with the Civil Guard is carrying out an inspection campaign to freeze all the machines that dispense these shots . The Directorate General of Public Health and Consumer Affairs has decided to act against the risk to health.
Sold in various clubs and bars in the resort of Magaluf, the traditional destination of young British people spend a few days on the island focused on the beach and party, but their dealers do not warn that its use could be harmful to health. The price usually varies from three to ten euros.
In one of the bars explain that this type of "drinks" begin to be offered daily from ten or eleven at night, as the day goes encouraging, and always on the terraces and bars apart. "Almost all the bars in the street is offered for three or four years," says a waiter from the famous Punta Ballena Magaluf. Another problem here is that had apparently served locations where this product is found to be without the majority of consumers
According to show several videos are available on the Internet, the consumer is done through a device that converts with the help of oxygen gas alcohol content in a kind of test tubes in a cocktail of different colors and flavors. One of the waiters explained that there are two systems depending on how you drive the "shot" in one of them used small bottles of compressed air and the other is a bottle of oxygen which mixes the liquid to be "sucked "through a nozzle.
Six different flavors
A Facebook page that encourages consumption, "OXY Shots Magaluf," explains that there are six different flavors: strawberry vodka, vodka, candy, apple sour, tequila, "after shock" and absinthe, adding that the price per " shot "(drink or shot) is four euros. "The oxygen comes to alcohol, where it begins to produce bubbles and causes the evaporation of gas. This allows you to inhale the fumes of alcohol that reach your lungs and from there into your bloodstream," says social network page . Despite health warnings, it leads to ensure that one gets drunk twice as fast this way and even promises that leaves no hangover the next day.
The creator of this page claims that these shots are sold in eight bars and nightclubs in Magaluf, six of which have been closed positions of distribution by the Balearic Government.
The intention of the health authorities to determine the source of the alcohol and if it is a misuse of the material used to make gas as it is, according to Govern, exclusive health and prescription. In addition, Public Health has identified a total lack of hygiene of the filters through which you inhale the product and adds that informs consumers about their health risks.
Sold in various clubs and bars in the resort of Magaluf, the traditional destination of young British people spend a few days on the island focused on the beach and party, but their dealers do not warn that its use could be harmful to health. The price usually varies from three to ten euros.
In one of the bars explain that this type of "drinks" begin to be offered daily from ten or eleven at night, as the day goes encouraging, and always on the terraces and bars apart. "Almost all the bars in the street is offered for three or four years," says a waiter from the famous Punta Ballena Magaluf. Another problem here is that had apparently served locations where this product is found to be without the majority of consumers
According to show several videos are available on the Internet, the consumer is done through a device that converts with the help of oxygen gas alcohol content in a kind of test tubes in a cocktail of different colors and flavors. One of the waiters explained that there are two systems depending on how you drive the "shot" in one of them used small bottles of compressed air and the other is a bottle of oxygen which mixes the liquid to be "sucked "through a nozzle.
Six different flavors
A Facebook page that encourages consumption, "OXY Shots Magaluf," explains that there are six different flavors: strawberry vodka, vodka, candy, apple sour, tequila, "after shock" and absinthe, adding that the price per " shot "(drink or shot) is four euros. "The oxygen comes to alcohol, where it begins to produce bubbles and causes the evaporation of gas. This allows you to inhale the fumes of alcohol that reach your lungs and from there into your bloodstream," says social network page . Despite health warnings, it leads to ensure that one gets drunk twice as fast this way and even promises that leaves no hangover the next day.
The creator of this page claims that these shots are sold in eight bars and nightclubs in Magaluf, six of which have been closed positions of distribution by the Balearic Government.
The intention of the health authorities to determine the source of the alcohol and if it is a misuse of the material used to make gas as it is, according to Govern, exclusive health and prescription. In addition, Public Health has identified a total lack of hygiene of the filters through which you inhale the product and adds that informs consumers about their health risks.
