Why is it safe to inhale noble gases

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I was watching hamilton’s pharmacopeia and he was inhaling xenon and seemed to think it was pretty safe. As a layman, my intuition tells me inhaling anything besides oxygen is not safe. Why can you breath pure gases other than oxygen and be fine?

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Air is around 21% oxygen, the rest is mostly nitrogen and small amounts of the other gasses including the noble ones so your breathing tiny ammounts of this stuff all the time.

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