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Radon is behind tobacco the No. 2 environmental factor in causing lung cancer. It’s estimated that radon in homes results in 15,000 to 22,000 deaths <\/a>a year in the U.S.<\/p>\n

A disturbing new study from Johns Hopkins University<\/a> found that radon concentrations in Pennsylvania homes near fracking areas have radon concentrations 39 percent higher than those in non-fracking areas. Great. With all the other negative effects of fracking, ruining people’s wells and water supplies, etc., it also releases a cancer-causing element.<\/p>\n

The study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, took more than 2 million radon readings between 1987 and 2013 in 860,000 buildings. Wow, seriously extensive.<\/p>\n

The study did not find a direct link between the fracking and radon releases, but it’s a pretty easy conclusion that that link exists — 39 percent increase in radon is eyebrow-raising.<\/p>\n

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We’ve turned a big corner in lung cancer in the U.S. The lung cancer death rate<\/a> among men have been dropping steadily for 30 years and the death rate for women started to drop (albeit more slowly) about 15 years ago\u00a0— mostly because far fewer people are smoking obviously. We don’t need more fracking to put a dent in that trend.<\/p>\n

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  Radon is behind tobacco the No. 2 environmental factor in causing lung cancer. It’s estimated that radon in homes results in 15,000 to 22,000 deaths a year in the U.S. A disturbing new study from Johns Hopkins University found that radon concentrations in Pennsylvania homes near fracking areas have radon concentrations 39 percent higher … Continue reading Johns Hopkins study: Fracking may be releasing lung cancer-causing radon<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[488,35,489],"tags":[490,599,491],"class_list":["post-3110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fracking","category-lung-cancer","category-radon","tag-fracking","tag-lung-cancer","tag-radon"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/fracking-e1428870157935.jpg?fit=500%2C473&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4hpEa-Oa","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":81,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=81","url_meta":{"origin":3110,"position":0},"title":"Surgeon General new report on smoking … cigarettes are bad, M’kay","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"December 9, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"OK, what has gotten a lot of press from a truly extensive Surgeon General's report on cigarettes released yesterday is a conclusion that \"there is no safe level of cigarette smoke.\" The media has turned this into \"just one cigarette can kill you.\" Unfortunately, the report does contain a passage\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Lung cancer"","block_context":{"text":"Lung cancer","link":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?cat=35"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/smoking-effects.jpg?fit=795%2C521&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/smoking-effects.jpg?fit=795%2C521&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/smoking-effects.jpg?fit=795%2C521&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/smoking-effects.jpg?fit=795%2C521&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":3660,"url":"https:\/\/pepesnonsmokingpartytimelounge.com\/?p=3660","url_meta":{"origin":3110,"position":1},"title":"Tobacco-growing, tobacco-smoking Kentucky leads the nation in cancer rate","author":"Pepe Lepew","date":"December 26, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Not the least bit surprising, but something to think about when it comes to tobacco control. 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