RE: Award offer

[BERNARD L COHEN <blc+@PITT.EDU>]

On Sun, 27 Apr 2003, Wesley wrote:

>  He then assumes

> that this is due to smoking (i.e., the smoke causes respiratory system

> cancers but not other cancers). He then implies that, for some reason, radon

> is higher in counties where smoking is lower. He offers no data

> demonstrating why this would be so.

>

> I can think of no reason why radon would be robustly and consistently higher

> in counties where smoking is lower. To me, this is an implausible

> association.



	--In my response I show that explanation does not help, regardless

of correlations between radon levels and smoking prevalence. There is no

set of smoking prevalences for U.S. counties that can explain the Puskin

observation. My explanation for the Puskin observation is given in my

response, Item #15 on my web site, along with the proof for my above

statement.



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