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troutman · 06-06-2016, 02:29 PM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health...ks_estimations

The studies have not produced a definitive answer, primarily because the risk is likely to be very small at the low exposure encountered from most homes and because it is difficult to estimate radon exposures that people have received over their lifetimes. In addition, it is clear that far more lung cancers are caused by smoking than are caused by radon.[37]

https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org...-health-risks/

Is there radon in your house? How much? In which rooms? How long have you lived there? How much time did you spend in which rooms? How much radon was in your previous residence? Residential radon studies are hampered by the near impossibility of quantifying an individual’s exposure over time. And most of the studies are flawed by the failure to correct for smoking. The risk of radon exposure to smokers is high; the risk to non-smokers is questionable. The way to reduce lung cancer deaths from radon is not to test everyone’s home and try to lower radon exposure – it is to get people to stop smoking. A 20% increase in risk of lung cancer from radon exposure (including smokers and non-smokers) must be put into perspective with the 2000% increase in risk from smoking.

06-06-2016, 02:29 PM	#67
troutman Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer Join Date: Oct 2002 Location: Crowsnest Pass Exp:	https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health...ks_estimations The studies have not produced a definitive answer, primarily because the risk is likely to be very small at the low exposure encountered from most homes and because it is difficult to estimate radon exposures that people have received over their lifetimes. In addition, it is clear that far more lung cancers are caused by smoking than are caused by radon.[37] https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org...-health-risks/ Is there radon in your house? How much? In which rooms? How long have you lived there? How much time did you spend in which rooms? How much radon was in your previous residence? Residential radon studies are hampered by the near impossibility of quantifying an individual’s exposure over time. And most of the studies are flawed by the failure to correct for smoking. The risk of radon exposure to smokers is high; the risk to non-smokers is questionable. The way to reduce lung cancer deaths from radon is not to test everyone’s home and try to lower radon exposure – it is to get people to stop smoking. A 20% increase in risk of lung cancer from radon exposure (including smokers and non-smokers) must be put into perspective with the 2000% increase in risk from smoking.