How does smoke attract radon that's not already in the air? And if it's already in the air, how does one not breath it anyway?
Some plants do assimilate heavy metals as they grow and tobacco is one, or so I hear. Radon and other radioactive elements such as found in granite are not uncommon in Southern soil. That could be the link and the smoke may be putting some radioactivity in the air, but I doubt it's the smoke that attracts anything. It was uranium in the orange and yellow Fiestaware that was in the radioactive glaze. It hasn't been made for many many years and is now very valuable [if unusable] as a collectors item. Lead [uranium that has been depleted of its radioactivity over millenia of time] was once used in many ceramic glazes and is still used in some glass to enhance optical qualities [Leaded glass crystal is one] and non food ceramic ware. Ken At 09:39 AM 11/3/02 -0500, you wrote: >I agree that Po210 would cause cancer. I would like to see more research >referenced that links the Po210 to calcium phosphate fertilizer. It is known that >radon is attracted to cigarette smoke, so a person in a smoke filled room will >end up getting exposed to about 100 times as much radon as if they were in a room >with clean air. This could easily explain the increase in smokers level of Po210 >(Po210 is the granddaughter of Radon 210). > >But many foods and such contain fairly large amounts of radioactivity. As a >nuclear instrumentation engineer, we used some of them as radioactive sources for >testing. For instance a banana or avocado contains enough K40 (potassium 40) to >easily expose an X-ray negative if you leave one sitting of the plate for a >while. The mantles for gas lanterns are extremely radioactive, the white power >they are doped with is Thorium 232. Some yellow plates have uranium oxide as the >yellow dye, and are so hot you can see things glow around them sometimes from the >radiation. > >Marshall > > > >jrowl...@nctimes.net wrote: > >> f.capezzuto writes: >> >> > My sister got a Lupus like disease from taking a stop smoking drug. >> > >> > She got worse till...she stopped taking it...two weeks to fully recover... >> > >> > Now she is back to smoking, and healthy. ;) >> > >> Engaging Atlantis Rising Magazine (11-12/02 Issue #36; article not yet >> online) explaining why cigarette smoke is radioactive, and possibly the >> patches and gums (depending on their ingredient sources): >> http://www.atlantisrising.com/ >> Recommendation/conclusion for smokers is to quit, or, ensure your >> tobacco is grown with appropriate fertilizers. (Pot farmers take note.) >> >> The fertilizers used on the tobacco fields are the culprit (same article >> reference): >> >> > Lives could be saved by simply changing fertilizers, they say... >> > >> > Almost 95% of the Lung Cancer caused by Cigarettes are allegedly the result >> > >> > of using calcium phosphate fertilizer to grow the Tobacco... >> > >> > http://www.acsa.net/HealthAlert/lungcancer.html >> > >> jr >> >> -- >> The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. >> >> Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org >> >> To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com >> >> Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html >> >> List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> > >
