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Smoking may impair acclimatization to high altitudes and may cause a decreased

capacity for oxygen delivery to the lungs. In a study of 109 men working on a project in

Peru at an altitude of 10,500 feet, (3200 meters), ten had to return to lower altitude for

nonmedical reason, all of whom were smokers.

High Altitude Medicine, Herbert Hultgren, Hultgren Publications, 1997, pp. 178

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