laughing gas

“So I wear that when I work with my patients, when they look horrified or complain, I quietly cut back on the laughing gas.”

Three men who helped import 91 million canisters of laughing gas into the UK through a series of bogus catering firms have been jailed.

Nitrous oxide – known colloquially as "laughing gas" – has many uses, from a painkiller during dental procedures to a whipping agent for canned whipped cream.

A driver who inhaled laughing gas and killed a woman while speeding in a Mercedes has been jailed for five years.

For decades, it was a popular party drug among the English aristocracy, who reveled in “laughing gas parties” before it was first used as an anesthetic and analgesic in medical settings.