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  3. From: constant@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Tino)
  4. Newsgroups: misc.consumers,sci.environment,sci.med
  5. Subject: Re: "Small amounts" of radioactivy (was: Light Bulbs)
  6. Message-ID: <1992Sep15.021501.15028@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
  7. Date: 15 Sep 92 02:15:01 GMT
  8. References: <1992Sep2.173533.11609@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Sep3.142402.641@newshub.ccs.yorku.ca> <JYM.92Sep14182134@remarque.berkeley.edu>
  9. Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
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  12. In article <JYM.92Sep14182134@remarque.berkeley.edu> jym@mica.berkeley.edu (Jym Dyer) writes:
  13. >> I don't ever want to be anywhere near a low intensity gamma
  14. >> source, but am not too concerned about a thousand specks of
  15. >> alpha-emitter taking up daily temporary residence on the
  16. >> *outside* of my epidermis.
  17. >=o= Suppose you breathe them in, though, and have a thousand
  18. >specks of alpha-emitter taking up daily temporary residence
  19. >in your lungs?
  20. >    <_Jym_>
  21.  
  22. Happens every time you light up a Marlboro. We must remember that the largest
  23. industry causing radiation damage to people's bodies is the tobacco industry.
  24.  
  25. Tino
  26. -- 
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  28. "The nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and
  29.  if mankind doesn't fit - well, that will be just too bad for mankind."
  30.                                       - Aldous Huxley
  31.