... in a cigarette, invades the organs and tissues of smokers and non-smokers, adults and children, born as well as unborn, and causes cancer, emphysema, heart disease, fatal growth retardation and other problems during pregnancy. The harm inflicted by all other addictions combined pales in comparison. Smoking-related illness, for example, claims in a few days as many victims as cocaine does in a whole year. Hence, disease is in a cigarette. The initial symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning are similar to the flu (but without the fever). They include, Headaches, Fatigue, and Shortness of breath, Nausea, and Dizziness. Many people with carbon monoxide poisoning mistake their symptoms for the flu or are misdiagnosed by physicians, which sometimes results in tragic deaths. About 90 percent of all lung cancer occurs in current or former smokers. The American Cancer Society estimates that 164,000 new cases of lung cancer are diagnosed annually in the United States. An ...

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