RE: Smoking Dose?

[Free Spirit <FRANK@rover.bsd.uchicago.edu>]

>From:	SMTP%"radsafe@romulus.ehs.uiuc.edu"  3-MAY-1996 15:59:44.92
>Subj:	Smoking Dose?
>
>What is the average pack-a-day smoker's WHOLE BODY ANNUAL DOSE? The latest
>edition of Los Alamos Science (annual report) has a "Personal Radiation
>Dose Chart" on page 48 that lists a mrem number of 870 for a pack-a-day
>smoker, but has the caveat "(high degree of uncertainty)".

	I have a page from a scientific american article that showed the
	dose to lungs (not whole body, but same effect as radon in cooking
	gas and basements,) as 8000 mrem for a 1-1/2 pack a day smoker.

	It listed the typical dose to people from nuclear power as 0.3 mrem
	per year, and 7mrem per year from uranium and thorium in brick houses.

	Hmm, maybe you could come up with a picture of Joe Camel in 
	full Rad gear, smoking away. Might get the idea across.

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