Anne Dixon: Vermont needs radon laws

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Anne Dixon, MD, who is director of Pulmonary Disease and Critical Care Medicine at the University of Vermont Medical Center.
November is Lung Cancer Awareness month. As a health professional and a volunteer for the American Lung Association, I will spend a good part of November raising awareness of about a variety of factors that might increase the risk of lung cancer. One such factor, that we in Vermont must take more seriously as a community, is radon