Re: Radon problem, and Thank You

["Rad health" <healthrad@HOTMAIL.COM>]

Ruth,



One can not determine risk without knowing the magnitude of exposure. The 

reason I asked about smoking was that 25% of fires are due to smoking and 

the next major factor is faulty extension cords.







Don





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>I'd like to thank everyone for their responses to my "wiring v. asbestos v.

>radon" problem.  the answers came out pretty much like my first assessment:

>the fire hazard from aluminum wiring is the biggest risk.

>

>I can't help thinking that most of us grew up (as did my own children)

>without knowing the radon concentration in our houses, and I at least 

>worked

>many years in laboratories where we shaped heating mantles from asbestos,

>used asbestos gloves, asbestos hot plates, and so on.  In fact, when we 

>first

>came to the U. S. in 1938, our house was heated with coal, as was our

>neighbor's (we got oil heat in 1941).  Is my own experience, and my own and

>my children's and grandchildren's good health, so unusual?  I am well aware

>of the statistics for asbestosis and cancer as a result of occupational

>exposure, but the linear extrapolation to very low doses of anything is, if

>nothing else, counter-intuitive.

>

>Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.

>ruthweiner@aol.com





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