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you will sufficate die for the lack of oxygen

The first is correct only if the gas is nearly pure nitrogen, without significant oxygen. Otherwise, there will be no ill effects whatsoever.

The earth's atmosphere is 79% nitrogen, so everybody is breathing primarily nitrogen all the time! The fact is, the nitrogen does almost nothing except dilute the oxygen we breathe (which is about 20% of the atmosphere). This dilution is important -- breathing pure oxygen for prolonged periods is injurious.

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