Re: Radon vs. LNT - the Chase

[Bernard L Cohen <blc+@pitt.edu>]

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, Tom Mohaupt wrote:

> 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)

	According to linear-no threshold theory, this would be about 15%

> Second hand smoke   1% +/- 1%

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