Re: I'm get tired of it too, but...

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

On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 Ernesto_Faillace@notes.ymp.gov wrote:

> 
> 
> If I believed that radon caused lung cancer and *if* I knew that my basement or
> other rooms had high radon levels, I may logically and consciously choose to
> avoid these locations as much as I could to avoid exposing myself.  As a
> non-smoker, I already consciously try to avoid locations that attract smokers.
> Could this be a confounding factor?  That is: a "known" high radon level in my
> house causes me to spend less time indoors, therefore, my radon exposure is
> actually lower than it may have been had I spent more time indoors inside a
> house with lower radon levels.   Therefore, high radon levels *could* correlate
> with lower exposures (and risks) if we use this "avoidance hypothesis".

	-The radon exposures in my study, and in nearly all others, were
received before the public became aware of radon. Public awareness did not
begin until 1986, and very few houses were measured for radon before 1985  

 
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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