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Lung cancer mortality and Radon in Nepal!!!!
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Franz Schoenhofer
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-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
Von: Fritz A. Seiler <faseiler@nmia.com>
An: Franz Schoenhofer <franz.schoenhofer@CHELLO.AT>
Cc: hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net <hflong@postoffice.pacbell.net>; Rad
health <healthrad@HOTMAIL.COM>; jmuckerheide@cnts.wpi.edu
<jmuckerheide@cnts.wpi.edu>; maury@WEBTEXAS.COM <maury@WEBTEXAS.COM>;
radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu <radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
Datum: Samstag, 19. Jänner 2002 23:22
Betreff: Re: Lung cancer mortality from radon versus mortality from
othercancers
>Dear Franz, All,
>
>I am afraid that it is neither funny nor ridiculous. I remember a study
made in Nepal, in a place where most houses do not have smoke-stacks
>or smoke holes. As a consequence, most of the women have severe respiratory
problems and a life expectancy of less than 30 years. Sorry, but I cannot
>find the reference.
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Fritz,
Your comment is even more ridiculous than the original one. Do not bother to
find the reference of this "Nepal study". I would not read it. I have not
been to Nepal but from whatever is available in the non-scientific
literature it seems that people live there a quite different life than in
New York or any other major city. I do not doubt that some "scientists", who
have since long wanted to hike in the Nepalese mountains received a grant
to - actually, to what? Oh, yes. Life expectancy versus smoke stack. They
investigated two families and found a positive correlation. And it was
radon, which was liberated from wood and yak-excrements by burning it and it
caused the respiratory problems and the early death of these women? If this
is not ridiculous, what else is ridiculous?
Where is the context to radiation protection?
Franz
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