Folks, we did not pull this from The Onion

chicagotribune.com
"Woman burned while smoking and using oxygen"
By William Lee Tribune reporter 4:56 AM CDT, August 11, 2011
"A 51-year-old woman who uses oxygen tanks to breathe suffered face and inhalation burns this morning while she was smoking inside her Near West Side home. The incident happened at about 3:20 a.m. in the 100 block of North Leavitt Street in the city's West Town neighborhood, officials said. The woman was smoking at her home when she received first and second-degree burns to her face, as well as some inhalation burns, according to the Chicago Fire Department. She was taken to Stroger Hospital in serious-to-critical condition.