The Journal of clinical psychiatry
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Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning by burning charcoal has become one of the most common ways of committing suicide in Hong Kong since late 1998. The evolution of the phenomenon was explored in the current study. ⋯ Suicide by burning charcoal is a new variant of domestic gas poisoning. A host of biopsychosocial and ethnological factors are responsible for the birth and indigenization of the method.