Re: Radon vs. LNT - the Chase

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

On Tue, 7 Mar 2000, D. Kosloff wrote:

> A couple of years ago an anti-tobacco crusader claimed that lung cancer was
> an rare, almost nonexistant disease until cigarette use was popularized
> during World War I.  If this is true it would seem to be an indication of a
> low impact for radon

	--This issue was treated in great detail, with lots of
statistics and a treatment of effects of improvements in  efficiency of
diagnosis, in our paper in HEALTH PHYSICS 38:53-69;1980 
> 
Bernard L. Cohen
Physics Dept.
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
Tel: (412)624-9245
Fax: (412)624-9163
e-mail: blc+@pitt.edu



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