Re: radon and smoking

["Field, R. William" <bill-field@UIOWA.EDU>]

Dr. Abu-Jarad,



In your email below, you did not mean to imply that the radon GAS 

concentrations increased did you?  I would expect the aerosols and airborne 

radon progeny to increase, but not the radon gas concentrations.



Bill Field



At 10:24 AM 02/13/2002 +0300, Dr. Abu-Jarad wrote:





>Regarding this issue we performed an experiment with LBL-Radon group in one

>room. The experiment done with radon source injected into the room (with and

>without cigarette smoking) in the same conditions: The results were

>published in:

>1- Radiation Protection Dosimetry: Vol 24, PP 507-511, 1988

>2- Radiation Measurements, Vo. 28, pp 579-584

>

>It showed the no. of aerosol particles(a.p.)=~100 a.p./cc (when the room was

>clean) and increased to ~100,000 a.p/cc after lighting 5 cigarette in the

>same room with the same experimental condition.

>

>As a results, the radon concentration increased tremendously. For that

>Please see the figures in those papers. If you are interested, and you don't

>have an access to these journals, send me your address and I will send you a

>copy of the papers.

>

>Best regards

>

>Dr. F. Abu-Jarad

>

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