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Article: Nothing's so rare as a day in June - without carbon monoxide.
- Article from:
- Medical Update
- Article date:
- June 1, 1990
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NOTHING'S SO RARE AS A DAY IN JUNE--WITHOUT CARBON MONOXIDE
If a leaking exhaust system on one's car is a potentially fatal hazard to its occupants, what about all those poor mortals who breathe the exhaust fumes from thousands of cars every day? And what about the carbon monoxide from a roomful of smokers in a restaurant or other public gathering place? At least I don't have to worry about lung cancer if I die first from carbon monoxide poisoning, right? And why is carbon monoxide hazardous at all?
A product of incomplete combustion, carbon monoxide is produced in any fire, whether from within a car engine's cylinders or from the tip of a cigarette. ...