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Description - Figure 3 - Radon exposure risk comparison

This chart is intended to give you a visual comparison of the risk from radon exposure as a non-smoker and the risk due to other more commonly understood hazards, such as accidental deaths from car accidents, drownings, falls, fires, etc. From the chart you can see that as the radon level increases the risk of death due to radon exposure becomes greater than that for all common accidental deaths combined. We take precautions everyday to prevent accidental deaths by wearing seat belts, wearing life jackets or changing the batteries in the smoke detector, we should also be testing our homes for radon and reducing the levels if they are high!