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Hmmm, my cigarette pack claims there is 10mg of carbon monoxide. I'm guessing that's per cigarette, although it doesn't say. Note that it does differ per cigarette brand and type. I once heard light cigarettes contain less tar but more carbon monoxide. The entire expression seems a little vague to me though. Carbon monoxide (CO) is the result of an incomplete burn of carbon (or carbon based materials... i.e. anything organic). A complete burn results in Carbon dioxide (the fabled CO2). The interesting part to me would be the amount of CO in cigarette-smoke, considering that that's what a person inhales (maybe the cigarette pack lists that??). But the amount of CO in the smoke depends on how complete the burn of the tobacco is (in fact, I would expect CO in the cigarette itself to burn to CO2 when smoking!). A burn is more complete in an oxygen rich environment. I doubt whether "confined space with no ventilation" would make a tremendous difference to the complete/incomplete burn due to the small amount of burnt material in a cigarette. But I'm guessing that smoking at high altitudes (less dense air) causes more CO inhalation then smoking at sea level.

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