| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 13 Physical fitness and carbon monoxide |
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| Physical fitness and carbon monoxide: Carbon Monoxide |
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| Carbon monoxide in tobacco smoke decreases the threshold for ventricular |
| fibrillation. |
| Clinics in Chest Medicine, December 1991, p. 635 |
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| Expired air carbon monoxide levels correlate with carboxyhemoglobin 5 to 1; the |
| average pack-a-day smoker has about 8% carboxyhemoglobin in the afternoon, which |
| corresponds to 40 parts per million carbon monoxide in expired air. |
| Psychiatric Clinics of North America, March 1993, p. 53 |
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| The carbon monoxide in cigarette smoke (it makes up from 2.7 to 6 percent of the |
| smoke) reduces the oxygen-carrying capacity of the blood. Cigarette smoke averages |
| about 400 parts per million of carbon monoxide, or eight times greater than the |
| maximum level of carbon monoxide permitted in industry. |
| Cigarettes, p. 30 |
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| Carbon monoxide emissions from one cigar are 30 times higher than for one |
| cigarette, and secondhand smoke from one cigar equals the smoke of three |
| cigarettes. |
| American Lung Association data reported in Ann Landers column, March 1997 |
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