[email protected] wrote: > In a message dated 10/21/2000 4:33:24 AM Romance Daylight Time, > [email protected] writes: > > << I knew about radon a good 15 years ago and worried about it some. I have > never tested for it. >> > > Barb, > I know you care a great deal about protecting your health, so test for > radon. I tested about 10 years ago and found that living in my house with > the amount of radon present was the equivalent of smoking several packs of > cigarettes a day. You just buy a test kit from a hardware store, but call > first because they won't all have it. Then hang it in your house according > to the directions and then mail it to the address given. There is nothing to > it. Then you can quit worrying if you don't have dangerous levels or pay > someone to install the venting system if you do. It seems like all we had to > do for a carbon monoxide detector was plug it into an outlet.
There is a close connection between radon and smoking. Radon is many times worse if you smoke than if you don't. I can't remember if it was 10 ro 100 times more deadly, but I remember it was significant. A few years ago I read that at the Oak Ridge facilities, they would not let workers work in the high radon environments if they were smokers. I thought it ironic that they felt they needed to protect those with a death wish by using those who wanted to stay healthy for the high radon work. Marshall -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the SUBJECT line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
