RE: RADSAFE digest 3003

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

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Reynolds, Harold wrote:
> > 
> > On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 B. Cohen wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > >a 25% higher lung cancer rate in urban areas than in
> > rural areas. This might be interpreted as a proportionately higher
> > prevalence of smoking in urban areas.
> > 
> > I would think this is due to higher air pollution levels in urban areas.
> > A doctor who performs autopsies told that he could see a difference in
> > lung condition between urban and rural dwellers whether they were smokers
> > or not.

	--I have no way to determine this. For my study, the conservative
thing was to assume that the difference was due to smoking -- by
conservative, I mean most favorable for supporting the linear-no threshold
theory.

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