1987 (Nexis) 14 Nov. 7 This ready-to-use oxygen boom has prompted another of Japan's leading department stores, Takashimaya Co., to start a new business:..an ‘oxygen bar.’ At the unique bar..one can breath three minutes of condensed oxygen for a mere Y100.
1996 (U.K. ed.) Sept. 75/4 Punters in Canada and Japan are lapping up something really different—oxygen bars. Apparently, a good snort of pure O2 cures everything from a hangover to a lagging sex life.