[ RadSafe ] body dose

[Chris Steinmann]

Otto,

Is 4100 mrem per 3 months of smoking a fact?  How many cigarettes does
one have to smoke in 3 months?  If you have a source, I would be
interested in the citation.

Thanks

Chris

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 1:59 AM, Otto G. Raabe <ograabe at ucdavis.edu> wrote:
> At 08:28 PM 2/24/2011, Mark S. Sasser wrote:
>
>> Routine bio assay Measurement Results
>> the results of the subject individual's routine urine measurement in 1987
>> are
>> consistent with those expectedfrom the previously evaluated intakes that
>> occured
>> in 1964 ,1966,1967.
>> in 1986 he was still showing 4100mrem(27% of the standard ). to his lung.
>>
>> my father now 84 years old and we do not know what we should do about what
>> is in
>> his lungs?
>
> ***********************
> Consider these facts:
>
> 4100 mrem is the dose of alpha radiation that just about everyone living in
> Colorado gets every year from natural radon decay products in homes.
>
> 4100 mrem is the dose of alpha radiation that a cigarette smoker gets in
> three months from polonium-210.
>
> Neither of these exposures is likely to result in detrimental effects.
> People in Colorado have lower lung cancer rates than in most other States.
>
> Most people don't make it to 84 years of age.
>
> Otto
>
>
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