Abstract
To the Editor:— In his letter to the editor ( 206 :1308, 1968), Dr. Bachman refers to everything that smoking might do to cause a traffic accident except the matter of carbon monoxide. This is presumably because the California study referred to states. Drugs and carbon monoxide were not significant primary factors. Dr. Anne L. Davis states, For example, the smoking of 30 cigarettes per day is estimated to provide a 20-25 fold greater exposure to carbon monoxide than would be experienced in the ambient air of Pasadena (Calif) by non-smokers. Fairly continuous smoking in an ill-ventilated closed car in the winter-time with a relatively minor leak in the motor exhaust system may be expected to be a serious secondary factor in fatal car crashes even though the carboxyhemoglobin determinations may not reveal a primary factor. lation than
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