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It's not dangerous unless you're an infant. Even when asleep, children and adults will quickly be roused by rising CO2 concentrations. Infants are the only humans who sometimes lack the necessary mechanism. The threshold for rapid loss of consciousness or fatality is very high -- 10-20% -- and is highly unlikely to be reachable by dry ice subliming in a bedroom.


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