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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