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You always thought that air is free, right?

Well, you're right. But the Canadians have proved it wrong in China.

Canadians Troy Paquette and Moses Lam got a silly idea that turned out to be brilliant. In the smog-ridden country of China, they began to sell bottled Canadian air.

These two jumped into creating Vitality Air in 2014, a company that sells bottled air.

They first "bottled" it in the Rockies and Lake Louise in Banff, and then took the vials for sale in China, according to the Atlantic.

Pollution in China is killing 4,000 people die per day, reported the Inquisitr. Winter brings worse situations, with more coal getting burnt.

Hence, the demand for Vitality is high.

At first it was a joke, with sealed plastic bags of air on eBay selling for 99 cents and then for $168 following a "bidding war".

The first shipment of 500 bottles of air was sold off in less than a week. About 4,000 bottles are now coming, according to the Atlantic.

One bottle gives 150 sprays and is sold for $14 depending on size. There is even a double for $43. This expensive commodity is bought by wealthy Chinese women for families or gifts. Other wealthy customers are night clubs and senior citizen homes.

Lam, who is an Edmonton resident, takes a trip every four hours to Banff once in a fortnight. He then bottles the air for 10 hours, according to CNN.  "It's time consuming because every one of these bottles is hand bottled," Lam said. "We're dealing with fresh air, we want it to be fresh and we don't want to run it through machines which are oiled and greased."

Lam's response to critics who are accusing them of creating a scam is: "If China can import food, water, why shouldn't they have the right to import air?"