I have a feeling my friend is going to be dead at 40 because he works on a military base painting with CARC (chemical agent resistive coating) When I was still employed there the weekly paper had 1 painter every few editions usually young and very sudden. I can only imagine with this obama care how he might have to deal with the new standard of putting off any real tests because he is too young to qualify. Harmful or not Bret, sometimes its worth the little extra piece of mind when you cant feel for it. Rad poisoning isn't a 100% guarentee of cancer either. I mean I know guys in their 70s who all they do is demill ancient tech that gave off radiation like old night vision. These guys wear the minimal protection too. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/baby.gif" alt="" />