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From: ned@SCINEWS.UUCP (Ned Robie)
Newsgroups: net.med,net.bio
Subject: in search of a safer cigarette
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Date: Fri, 7-Jun-85 03:09:39 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun  7 03:09:39 1985
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I have heard that carbon monoxide poisoning is the most dangerous
result of cigarette smoking.  If this is true, would it be possible
to make cigarettes with filters that contain a substance (like hemoglobin)
that would absorb the carbon monoxide before it's inhaled?  Do such
subtances exist and, if so, would they be effective and safe when used
in this manner?

I'm not a chemist or a biologist, so please excuse me if this idea
is ridiculously impractical.

-- Ned Robie