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From: sean payne City: hamilton, ZZ
Hello, I was reading about how plants produce carbon dioxide when they have no light. I was wondering if it would be dangerous or have any negative effects on my breathing to be sleeping in a room full of plants. Thank you
	Extension Message From: James Schuster Horticulturist and Plant Pathologist (Retired) schuster@illinois.edu
If you are healthy this will not be a problem since most homes should leak well enough for the air to change completely every hour. If however, you have sealed the home so well that there is a extremely poor turn over of air or you have extremely bad respitory problems, then consider reducing the number of plants
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