Radon in home 'equivalent of smoking anywhere from four to eight cigarettes a day' Gas is odorless, tasteless and dangerous. Gere Goble.

(WJHL) — Radon is a colorless, ... that you get a mitigation system,” said Jenkins. “4.0 is the equivalent of smoking a pack ...

If a house has an average of 4 pCi/L of radon, breathing that air every day would be the equivalent of smoking between six and eight cigarettes daily, she said. Radon risk if you’ve never smoked ...

A radon level of 40 in a home is equivalent to smoking four packs of cigarettes per day, officials said. The aircheck kit includes a form on the packaging to fill out to be sent to a lab for testing.

American Radon Mitigation says having a 4.0 radon level is equivalent to smoking 8 cigarettes a day or having 200 x-rays done a year. The weather, especially in the winter, impacts the level too.

Radon testing advocates say living in a house with radon levels above the EPA’s suggested limit — 4.0 pCi / l (picu curies per liter of air) — is equivalent to smoking half a pack of ...

Seib also says the damage it can have on your lungs is the equivalent of smoking over 16 cigarettes a day. Radon mitigation Mark Goeser owns Radon Solutions in Missoula.

The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that radon is the second-leading cause of lung cancer in the United States, behind cigarette smoking, accounting for 21,000 deaths annually.

The equivalent of smoking half a pack of cigarettes a day. In this room at Newburyport High the radon level WAS 28. Hank: "That’s seven times higher than it should be!" ...

January is National Radon Action Month, ... Testing at his house found radon levels 1,100% higher than usual, causing lung damage equivalent to smoking 135 packs of cigarettes a day.