Little French bastards are choking themselves to death. I guess because it feels good? I don’t know, I’m not a fucking idiot, so I haven’t tried this “game”, but supposedly cutting off the blood supply to your brain gets you high. Hey, that’s basically how alcohol works, so I guess it’s a cheap way to get briefly drunk.
Here’s a thought though. The drinking age in France is like, what, four years old? Why not just get drunk? Go down to the store, buy some cheap wine, and get shitfaced like normal teenagers do. Don’t goddamn choke yourself to death in order to get a few seconds of feeling high. You’d think nobody would have to explain this, but apparently kids today are that stupid.
Here’s a great quote from the article. “The medical community remains divided over whether to publicize asphyxiation games. “There’s a fear that if you raise awareness then other people will start to copy it.””
Yeah, that’s a great reason to not tell people shit. We also shouldn’t tell people how HIV is spread, for fear that more people will have sex. “Wait, you mean all this time I could have been having sex? Why didn’t anybody tell me this??” Don’t tell people about the dangers of playing Russian Roulette, because then more people might play!  And definitely don’t tell people about the dangers of smoking, because more people might smoke!
How about we just let people be responsible for their own damn selves? If you tell people about how choking themselves to death is bad and they still do it, well, hey. You tried, right? It’s probably for the best that we eliminated those genes from the pool…
It’s Europe, man. They’re all about ignoring things and hoping they’ll go away. You remember how in Germany it’s illegal to, like, admit that World War II ever happened? Yeah.