THE RESEARCH

Seven briefing documents comprising the complete evidentiary record behind this project. Every factual claim is sourced to court records, federal statutes, peer-reviewed research, or major news investigations. All 313 archivable sources are preserved via the Wayback Machine.

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BRIEFING DOCUMENTS

313

ARCHIVED SOURCES

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NAMED VICTIMS DOCUMENTED

SC Research Briefing

South Carolina-specific data on N₂O deaths, enforcement, and regulatory gaps. Documents the near-total absence of state-level data and penalty structure under S.751.

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GA Research Briefing

Georgia as the Southeast distribution hub and Galaxy Gas corporate footprint. SBK International operations, Cloud 9 franchise network, and the state’s emerging regulatory response.

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National Supply Chain Briefing

Complete pipeline from Chinese manufacturing to U.S. consumer. Six federal agencies with partial authority, international enforcement comparisons, and the sole federal criminal case in 12 years.

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Financial Analysis

Market size estimates ($400M–$1B), unit economics (967% factory-to-retail markup), and penalty-vs-profit breakdown. Penalty-vs-profit analysis with S.751’s escalating fine structure.

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Supply Chain Visualization

Interactive pipeline map tracing N₂O from factory to consumer with verified sources at every node. Regulatory gaps and intervention points identified.

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313 Wayback Machine archived sources across all documents. Every URL verified, archived, and cross-referenced. Evidence preservation for the complete briefing package.

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N2O Victim Registry

30 publicly documented deaths and 9 survivors with permanent injury. Each case sourced to court filings, news investigations, or published case reports.

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ORIGINAL DATA ANALYSIS

Original datasets built for this project. Full methodology, source citations, and limitations documented on each page.

DATA ANALYSIS 01

CDC Mortality Analysis — ICD-10 T59.0 Deaths (2010–2024)

National death counts parsed from CDC NCHS microdata. All 51 jurisdictions have recorded N₂O deaths. 45 states suppressed under NCHS confidentiality rules. 2024 provisional data included. Any-listed cause methodology yields 1,420 deaths (2010–2023) vs. JAMA-reported ~1,240.

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DATA ANALYSIS 02

Campus Proximity Dataset — Smoke/Vape Shop Density

11,016 smoke/vape shops mapped within 1 mile of 2,664 college campuses across all 51 jurisdictions. Google Places API queried against IPEDS-verified campuses (1,000+ enrollment). National average: 4.17 shops per campus. This dataset does not exist anywhere else.

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Methodology: All factual claims in these documents carry inline bracketed source references [N] linking to the verified sources section at the bottom of each document section. The Source Archive (Document 06) provides Wayback Machine snapshots for every source, ensuring evidence preservation regardless of future link rot.