RE: Re: Ecologic Limitations

["Jim Muckerheide" <jmuckerheide@cnts.wpi.edu>]

Hi Tom, 



Re your sarcasm :-), see below:





-----Original Message-----

From:	Thomas J Savin 



To all involved,



I must confess that the statement below - is totally baffling to me.

The first question is what was the life expectancy in the late 1800's.

Did people live long enough to get lung cancer?



<Yes. "Life expectancy" is heavily weighted by mortality in infants and

childhood diseases, and accidents in early adulthood.>



How were the data reported - as consumption?



<Studies have done the work.>



Radon was discovered in the year 1900.



<Radon areas didn't get created, or move, after 1900 :-) >



Smoking Tobacco had been performed way before the late 1800's.



<Not as heavy cigarette smoking.>



So this statement must be sarcastic, right?



<Wrong. Without more formal sources, consider e.g.:

http://www.smokinglungs.com/cighist.htm 



Regards, Jim>





Please, no one take this as an offense - it is not meant to be - but it

just does not make any sense.





Best Regards for the New Year,

Tom Savin



On Wed, 2 Jan 2002 16:43:22   

 Jim Muckerheide wrote:



 Before smoking (late 1800s)

>lung cancer was very rare, and not affected by radon levels.







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