Hidden Danger: Radiation In Granite

It just had to have an anti slant mentioning it is the 2nd leading cause behind smoking

Yet...who smokes 30 packs of cigarettes a day. I don't smoke that many packs in a week LOL

The Environmental Protection Agency says a reading below 2 picocuries per liter is considered safe for radon gas. The levels in my kitchen are 240 picocuries per liter. The EPA says that poses the same risk of cancer as smoking 30 packs of cigarettes per day.

It's time to ban the granite. Goes right along with banning alcohol, cell phones, Big Macs, all fast food, perfumes, peanuts, trans fats,etc,etc,etc.

Anyone wanna takes bets on how long before Kookifornia bans the granite?

They're already doing the fast food bans.

bdjunker wrote:

It's time to ban the granite. Goes right along with banning alcohol, cell phones, Big Macs, all fast food, perfumes, peanuts, trans fats,etc,etc,etc.
Anyone wanna takes bets on how long before Kookifornia bans the granite?
They're already doing the fast food bans.

from restaurants. Do you smoke 30 packs a day? LOL
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080725/ap_on_bi_...

Linda wrote:

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from restaurants. Do you smoke 30 packs a day? LOL
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080725/ap_on_bi_...

Hell I barely smoke a half a pack a day.

bdjunker wrote:

It's time to ban the granite. Goes right along with banning alcohol, cell phones, Big Macs, all fast food, perfumes, peanuts, trans fats,etc,etc,etc.
Anyone wanna takes bets on how long before Kookifornia bans the granite?
They're already doing the fast food bans.

I'll go along with the cell phones for sure. Anyone I see using them next to my children is going to hear from me. Their is nothing worst than exposing children to secondhand electromagnetic waves.

bdjunker wrote:

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Hell I barely smoke a half a pack a day.

Vaccine Derived from Tobacco Plants Could Fight Lymphoma
July 24, 2008
A group of researchers have found that a personalized vaccine that can be made using tobacco plants actually could help patients with lymphoma in fighting off their illness, Reuters reported July 21.

"Using tobacco to treat cancer — I love it," said Ron Levy, M.D., of the Stanford University School of Medicine, head of a research team that studied the potential of a genetically engineered tobacco plant to treat a non-Hodgkin's lymphoma called follicular B-cell lymphoma.

The research team added an antibody gene from a lymphoma patient's cancer cells to a virus that normally attacks tobacco plants, then infected the plants with this altered virus. Levy explained that when this happened, the plants became protein-producing factories. Injection of the protein into 16 lymphoma patients subsequently resulted in 70 percent of them developing an immune response, he said.

Scientists have a great deal of interest in developing vaccines from plants because the process is much quicker and less expensive than that of generating the vaccines in animals. Future research will be needed to determine whether the vaccine derived from tobacco could work as a full-fledged cancer treatment.

"This would be a way to treat cancer without side effects," Levy said. "The idea is to marshal the body's own immune system to fight cancer."

The research from Levy and colleagues appears in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
http://www.jointogether.org/news/research/sum ...

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Oh my, the much maligned tobacco plant that rANTIS hate could save their life.

I wonder if they would refuse to be treated with bad, bad tobacco.

ROFLMAO