As it stands, a handful of states - including Delaware, Nevada and New Jersey - are very close to offering regulated online poker. Nevada is the leader of the pack among US states when it comes to regulating online poker, bringing the country the first US-licensed real-money poker site in 2012.
Answer Wiki. Breathing pure oxygen kills you because it destroys the normal gas balance with CO2 (carbon dioxide) in the lungs required for effective oxygenation on the cellular level. That's why some modern lifesaving applications prefer using Carbogen instead of pure Oxygen. Carbogen is a 95:5 mixture of O2 and CO2.
Breathing in pure helium deprives the body of oxygen, as if you were holding your breath. If you couldn't breathe at all, you'd start to die in minutesâas soon as your body exhausted the supply of oxygen stored in the blood. But helium speeds up this process: When the gas fills your lungs, it creates a diffusion gradient that washes out the oxygen. In other words, each breath of helium you take sucks more oxygen out of your system. After inhaling helium, the body's oxygen level can plummet to a hazardous level in a matter of seconds. Advertisement. You don't have to worry about fatal asphyxiation if you're sucking from a helium balloon at a party. At worst you'll keep going until you get lightheaded and pass outâat which point you'll stop inhaling helium and your body's oxygen levels will return to normal. Of more concern is the possibility that you'll hurt yourself when you fall down.