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05-10-2010, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by sarasi View Post
Rather than just depleting the oxygen in the room, burning charcoal creates carbon monoxide, which replaces the oxygen in your blood and causes death. People sometimes die accidentally when they sleep in rooms with heaters which produce carbon monoxide.
Good point. I know all about the affects of carbon monoxide, but I wasn't aware that burning charcoal produced CO. Most monoxide deaths I've ever heard of were (as you said) accidents via faulty heaters, or suicide by running a car in an enclosed space/ piping the exhaust into the car interior.
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