Re: Radon and Smoking

[BLHamrick@AOL.COM]

In a message dated 02/12/2002 10:46:13 AM Pacific Standard Time, dkosloff1@EMAIL.MSN.COM writes:



> I don't think it is the smokers who open the windows.  No matter how much
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> the room smells, it can never reach the concentration that they are
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> generating right next to their noses.  The windows probably get opened when
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> a non-smoker wants a little fresh air.  Or maybe they are opened by people
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> like my old roommate from Vermont who always had to sleep with the window
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> open, no matter what the outside temperature was.


Actually, lots of smokers DO open the windows.  Despite the concentration reaching the lungs while actually smoking, the smell of stale smoke in a house is still obnoxious, even to many smokers.


Barbara