24-Year-Old Gets Carbon Monoxide Poisoning After Smoking Hookah: 'I Thought I Was Going to Die' (Exclusive)
Rachel Micheaux in a Detroit hospital after she got carbon monoxide poisoning on Nov. 12.Photo:Rachel MicheauxLast Sunday,Rachel Micheauxsat in her apartment in Detroit with her three friends for a “girls day” to help her get over a breakup. They passed around a bottle of tequila and smoked hookah, a water pipe.Over the course of 5 hours the group smoked three “orange heads” — orange-flavored tobacco —using the hookah. For the first 2 hours, Micheaux says, the apartment windows and balcony door were open....