RE: Radon vs. LNT - the Chase

["Neil, David M" <neildm@id.doe.gov>]

Yeah, right.  You died of TB before the cancer could get you.  The Oteen NC
Veteran's Admin hospital started life as a TB sanatorium.  Many diseases
were rare until people started living long enough to die from them.

Dave Neil		neildm@id.doe.gov

A Haiku for the Computer Age:      A file to import.     And like the winter
snow,      My screen lies frozen.

On Tuesday, March 07, 2000 7:52 PM, D. Kosloff [SMTP:dkosloff@ncweb.com]
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, since the gas light era would have increased indoor
> radon concentrations if natural gas was used.  I don't know if "town gas"
> usage released radon.
>
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