January is National Radon Action Month
December 28th, 2008
Susan M. Conrath, PhD, MPH, U.S. Public Health Service issued the following statement December 17, 2008 regarding radon health risk and smoking.
“EPA’s 2003 risk assessment, based on the National Academy of Science’s BEIR VI Report shows a risk of lung cancer deaths to be 6/100 for smokers and 7/1000 for never smokers. Since most federal agencies regulate substances which cause 1 death per million and occasionally 1 death per 100,000, the radon risks are huge.