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Carbon monoxide is produced by a burning cigarette.

This gas bonds with the red blood cells in the blood stream in the place of oxygen molecules, reducing its absorption.

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The poisonous gas in tobacco smoke is carbon monoxide. There are also vapors of tar (or technically, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) and nicotine which are also toxic to some extent.

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