Choking Game No Mystery to Children, Oregon Study Finds

[dogboy]

Something to discuss with Cadets

Choking Game No Mystery to Children, Oregon Study Finds

According to the recent survey of more than 10,642 eighth graders in Oregon, 36.2 percent reported having heard of the choking game, 30.4 said they had heard of someone participating in it and 5.7 percent said they had participated themselves. The survey was conducted in 2008 and reported by Centers for Disease Control and Prevention last week.

"We're concerned that this many kids have reported they're actually practicing this behavior," said Robert Nystrom, adolescent health manager at the Oregon Public Health Division and one of the authors of the report. "It seems like one in three eighth graders know about this activity, and we have no idea whether they know how dangerous it is."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/health/research/22choke.html?ref=health

[Spike]

Heck, as kids we chocked each other all the time!  Not to have fun, but to kill.  So glad chocking is not just for murder anymore. 

Seriously, I would be more concerned with the paint and glue huffing, the cough syrup highs and the inhalation of carbon dioxide from plastic soda bottles. 

So now, when I see a person getting chocked, I will just keep walking, knowing they are doing it to get a rush and nothing else.

[SarDragon]

Heck, as kids we chocked each other all the time!  Not to have fun, but to kill.  So glad chocking is not just for murder anymore. 

Seriously, I would be more concerned with the paint and glue huffing, the cough syrup highs and the inhalation of carbon dioxide from plastic soda bottles. 

So now, when I see a person getting chocked, I will just keep walking, knowing they are doing it to get a rush and nothing else.

Is that with wooden chocks, or metal chocks? Those can cause some serious blunt force trauma.

Oh, wait, did you mean choke(d)?

[raivo]

They know more than I do, I had to Google it...

[JoeTomasone]

My 9 year old heard about it in school last year and apparently some of the kids were PLAYING it.    We had that talk IMMEDIATELY.