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Originally posted by Sandy G
Don't eat the dust in the back of an old radio or TV & youshould have practically nothing to worry ABOUT.-SANDY g.
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I'd also try to avoid breathing large quantities. Stuff lodged in the lungs can be pretty ugly as well. I suppose if it was from a heavy smoker's house it could be radioactive in a sense--polonium contamination in the soil is known to be absorbed rather well by tobacco plants...just one of the other hazards of smoking--and, it's an alpha emitter, which means it doesn't do much unless it's close range, then it can be really nasty (e.g., inhaled into the lungs). But this isn't what I was really thinking about above.-kby