UI study calls to improve radon tests (The Iowa City Press-Citizen)

A University of Iowa study calls for more rigorous testing of commercial radon detectors.

Take a moment and consider how many lives are torn apart by an element that is most likely present Home Radon your own environment:

• 400,000 deaths per year are accredited to it, making it deadlier than AIDS, automobile accidents, homicides, suicides, drug overdoses and fires combined.
• $50 billion in tax payer's money is spent on the health costs related to treatments of diseases it causes.
• About 8.6 millions Americans have at least 1 disease because of their exposure to it.
• Children who are exposed to it suffer from a handful of ailments, including Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.

What could this ominous "it" be? Maybe "it" is a lethal dose of radon, or maybe a choking amount of greenhouse gases? Maybe "it" is some deadly strain of virus or microbe or genetic disorder.

Unfortunately, "it" is something much simpler and millions of people voluntarily expose themselves to alarming amounts of "it" on a daily basis.

"It" is tobacco smoke.

Smoking is detrimental to your health, regardless of your age-it is just as harmful to unborn infants as it is to children, adolescents, adults and the elderly. Over a dozen potentially fatal diseases are caused by smoking, and yet it is extremely difficult to break this life-threatening habit. The nicotine in tobacco products is so extremely addictive that people are unable to quit even if they do realize that they could be killing themselves unless they stop. Of course, the ad campaigns backed by cigarette companies target certain people groups in order to score easy, new consumers.

Is the nicotine fix worth the risks?

Lung Cancer: lung cancer has the lowest survival rate of all cancers. In recent years, lung cancer has killed more people that breast cancer, prostate cancer and colon cancer combined. <

Other Cancers: smoking have been linked to cancers of the upper respiratory system as well as lungs. Many smokers suffer miserably from cancers of the mouth, throat (pharynx), voice box (larynx) and esophagus. Research is also making it clear that smoking is associated with leukemia (cancer of the blood), bladder, stomach, kidney and pancreas.

Respiratory Diseases: many of these diseases are clumped together and fall under the header of COPD (Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease). These diseases include emphysema, chronic bronchitis and asthmatic bronchitis-even if a single disease is not diagnosed, the collection of symptoms associated with smoking included coughing, phlegm, wheezing and difficult or laboured breathing (dyspnea).

Cardiovascular Diseases: these diseases are illness and injuries of the heart, blood vessels of the heart and the system of blood vessel (or veins and arteries) that run throughout the body and brain. Cardiovascular diseases caused by smoking include heart attacks, angina (coronary heart diseases), blockages in the legs (peripheral vascular disease) and strokes (cerebrovascular diseases).

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