Exposure to radon gas is the leading cause of lung cancer among people who never smoked cigarettes or other tobacco products. The Environmental Protection Agency says radon accounts for about 21,000 ...

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Tests have shown more than half of the houses in Morgan County have dangerously high levels of the radioactive gas radon.

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Risk maps for the cancer-causing gas radon can encourage people to test their homes for the substance, but only if homeowners ...

TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — Only nine counties in the state of Florida are at a moderate risk of radon poisoning. The rest of the state has a “low potential” for radon levels to be dangerous in county homes.

Unsafe levels of cancer-causing radon gas detected at 16 UK prisons - High levels of radon gas, which can increase the risk ...

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