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Acute exposure to high ambient CO2 (e.g., on planes or in crowded indoor spaces) acts as an external stressor because sudden elevated environmental CO2 and others' exhalations force compensatory responses that provoke anxiety, headaches and impaired cognition even if internal CO2 control is intact.
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