Better Living Through Radon

april 8, 2003  09:44 am
Better Living Through Radon
Missoula Independent's Andy Smetanka goes down under to explore the lure of "health mines," where multitudes go to breathe radioactive radon -- for their health. Health mine habitues claim cures for everything from lupus to tennis elbow from exposure to this "noble gas," which the EPA has labeled second only to cigarette smoke as a leading cause of lung cancer. “People will try anything,” Pat Lewis, owner of the Free Enterprise health mine tells Smetanka, “and when you have your health, it’s hard to relate to those who don’t.”