Carbon monoxide, produced by the incomplete combustion of organic materials, comes from automobile exhaust, tobacco smoke, and malfunctioning gas heaters. It has a greater affinity for hemoglobin in the bloodstream than does oxygen, and several hundred parts per million in the air can cause symptoms of oxygen deprivation.
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