Radon revisited
The early warnings may have been overblown, but research since has shown that lung cancer risk from the gas is real.
Americans held their collective breath when news of radon, a radioactive gas, seeped into the headlines during the 1980s. Scientists had seemingly found lung cancer–causing monsters in basements across the nation.
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