"Rob Morley" wrote in message
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@slartibartfast.com says...
Grimly Curmudgeon wrote:
What a load of hairsplitting ********.

Hairsplitting quite possibly, but it is not ********, oversimplified
possibly but not ********.

No, it's utter ********. If you were talking about a non-toxic gas it
would be true, but carbon monoxide *is* a poison - it disrupts the
body's chemistry at a cellular level.

What he said. You "drown"/suffocate in a Carbon Dioxide atmosphere. There is
a distinct difference between this and Carbon Monoxide deaths where (as the
man says) the body chemistry is affected and this THEN causes death. It is a
reversible poisoning but that doesn't mean it's not a poisoning.


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