Can You Help Me Please. Thank You.
2007-01-16 17:28:59 · 5 answers · asked by trickle 1 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Respiratory Diseases
Not as much as the belching great mass of fumes coming from the cars most of these anti smoking people drive around in.
The levels in cigarette smoke are harmless
People have been known to commit suicide by the inhalation of car fumes in enclosed spaces
The effects of carbon monoxide in parts per million are listed below:
35 ppm (0.0035%) Headache and dizziness within six to eight hours of constant exposure
100 ppm (0.01%) Slight headache in two to three hours
200 ppm (0.02%) Slight headache within two to three hours
400 ppm (0.04%) Frontal headache within one to two hours
800 ppm (0.08%) Dizziness, nausea, and convulsions within 45 minutes. Insensible within two hours.
1,600 ppm (0.16%) Headache, dizziness, and nausea within 20 minutes. Death in less than two hours.
3,200 ppm (0.32%) Headache, dizziness and nausea in five to ten minutes. Death within 30 minutes.
6,400 ppm (0.64%) Headache and dizziness in one to two minutes. Death in less than 20 minutes.
12,800 ppm (1.28%) Death in less than three minutes
2007-01-17 10:12:19 · answer #1 · answered by Northern Spriggan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if this is for a school question, carbon momoxide combines with the haemoglobin in the blood, which normally carrys oxygen around your body. If carbon monoxide combines with it, forming carboxyhaemoglobin, it cannot carry oxygen around your body, and so less oxygen can go to your essential organs. This is how faulty boilers can kill people, but in cigarettes it makes you more tired more quickly. I don't know how much carbon monoxide you need to inhale from cigarettes to lose consciousness.
2007-01-16 18:00:41 · answer #2 · answered by Jonathan R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
second hang smoke mostly consists of the smoke that is coming off the burning tip of the cigarrette. it is made up of about 400 chemical and not near as harmful as the smoke exhaled by the smoker which contains closer to 4000 chemicals which include mutagens, and carcinogens. (formaldehyde, cyanide, sulphur dioxide and many more.) benzene is another,(known to cause lukemia) cyanide as you know just mainly causes death my blocking oxygen flow on a cellular level in the body. there are many many things that are possible health problems associated with second hand smoke.
2007-01-16 17:42:44 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Mental confusion leading to death
2007-01-16 17:37:10 · answer #4 · answered by brainstorm 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Death!
2007-01-18 04:39:49 · answer #5 · answered by lizzybet 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋