Radon is a silent killer
January 14th, 2009
Debi wrote an interesting post today on
Here’s a quick excerpt
On Feb. 8, 2006, Gloria Linnertz, of Waterloo, Ill., lost her husband, Joe, to lung cancer.
That same day, Joe became a statistic — he was one of more than 21,000 people who die each year of radon-induced lung cancer in the United States.
“He led a very healthy lifestyle,” said Gloria, who is vice president of the national group Cancer Survivors Against Radon. “When we asked the oncologist how he could have gotten lung cancer, he said, ‘Smoking,’ but Joe hadn’t smoked in 27 years.
“We were not around anyone that smoked, and we had no idea what radon gas was — and we were living with over four times the EPA action level for 18 years,” she said. “Radon is deadly, and what’s so awful, is people don’t know about it.”
Read the rest of this great post here
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