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Re: Radon and Smoking
Jim,
Yes, the study directly addresses it. Have you read the study?
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: Jim Muckerheide <jmuckerheide@cnts.wpi.edu>
To: Field, R. William <bill-field@UIOWA.EDU>; <RuthWeiner@aol.com>;
<radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2002 1:10 PM
Subject: RE: Radon and Smoking
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Field, R. William [mailto:bill-field@UIOWA.EDU]
> Sent: Tue 12-Feb-02 4:32 PM
> To: RuthWeiner@aol.com
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: Radon and Smoking
>
> It is the alpha emissions from the daughters. I do agree that
> cumulative radon exposure is what you should look at. There you are
> including both time and concentration to obtain exposure.
>
> Bill
>
> Bill, If you think so, does your study address this? But animal/biology
> data shows radon effects are primarily dose rate dependent (e.g,
> Monchaux and others). Below a threshold dose rate, for the same dose
> there is no dose effect (as with environmental radon).
>
> Regards, Jim
> ==========
>
> At 03:46 PM 2/12/2002 -0500, you wrote:
>
>
> Here is another consideration: if it is either the alphas or
> the daughter emissions, or both, that are effective in radon health
> effects, would CUMULATIVE radon exposure be the factor to look at,
> rather than some kind of average or median? Averages, it seems to me,
> are too dependent on ventilation, time spent in various parts of the
> house, and similar undocumented variables to be reliable indicators of
> radon exposure.
>
> Ruth Weiner, Ph. D.
> ruthweiner@aol.com
>
>
>
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