Re: Radon vs. LNT - the Chase

[Tom Mohaupt <tom.mohaupt@wright.edu>]

Just as I thought. No one has a quantitative information on what causes
lung cancer. Since no one really knows this is my hypothesis of what I
asked for. Any one have any better data. 

Smoking     90% +/- 10%
Prior lung disease/injury   5% +/- 3%
Illegal activity (smoking marijuana, inhaling fumes)  5% +/- 3%
Occupational carcinogens  2% +/- 1%
Radon    1% +/- 1% (in non-smokers)
Second hand smoke   1% +/- 1%

Of course no study can gather decent information on illegal activity, so
let's just ignore it. There are three things that I believe real data would
show:
1) The error bars for smoking go to 100%.
2) The error bars for radon go to 0%
3) The expection value for radon is smaller than the error bars for
smoking.

Tom
FIELDRW@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In a message dated 00-03-07 11:31:07 EST, Dr. Raabe wrote:
> 
> << When discussing the uncertain risk of radon in homes it is important to
>  remember that it is known that, in our society, almost all lung cancer
>  (about 95%) is caused by exposure to tobacco smoke.
> 
> I think the figure most quoted is 85%, but either way, smoking is the major
> cause of lung cancer.
> 
> Regards, Bill Field
> bill-field@uiowa.edu
> 
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