Cell Phones More Dangerous Than Cigarettes

[Adalis]

You know wanna know so here's the link:

http://www.care2.com/news/member/193692282/694575

[lillies1978]

perhaps we should stay away from either

[River Gazer]

good. im gonna live longer than those damn chatterbox tween girls.

Im going for a smoke

[raztaz12]

I'll join ya river gazer!

[TheRavenMother]

I heard that if you leave a mobile on long enough and break an egg over it, that it will cook the egg.

[raztaz12]

eeeeeewewwwwwwwwwwwwwww well same thing with a laptop i guess.

[Tsuki No Hikari]

I don't like cell phones .. at all.. And everyone in my house keeps using them all the time..

[TheRavenMother]

I cant use them next to my ear for more than minute, I feel something inside the phone and its like, bubbles floating through my ears but are prickly... I sound kinda mental, but my touch/sense is very delicate, more than other people. I can feel an eye lash fall onto my chest when I sleep for example. I am deaf however, totally deaf in my right ear and only 28 decibles in the other.

[adonis777]

I have a phone at home with a message recorder.

If it´s important I´ll call you back.

[indigl]

I'd rather not use mobile phones ever as within seconds of using them I start exhibiting symptoms of mobile phone sickness which includes localized head aches specific to just above the ear, sinus and eye irritation, and nausea. Cordless phones however do not have the same effect on me that cell phones have. Nevertheless my preference is for an old fashion phone that is connected with one of those long wound up telephone cords.

Here is the above linked article.

Cell Phones More Dangerous Than Cigarettes

Tuesday, April 1, 2008 8:47 AM

By: Sylvia Booth Hubbard

A top Australian neurosurgeon says cell phones may cause more cancer in the near future than smoking or asbestos. Dr. Vini Khurana, who conducted an extensive review of the link between cell phones and brain cancer said using cell phones for at least ten years could more than double the risk of developing deadly brain cancer. Since three times as many people use cell phones as smoke, cell phones will soon emerge as a major killer.

“It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking, and directly concerns all of us, particularly the younger generation, including very young children,” Dr. Khurana wrote.

Dr. Khurana says there has been an increase in brain tumors in people who have used cell phones heavily for a long time on the same side of the head as their “preferred ear” for making calls. He believes it has been difficult to prove a direct link between cell phone usage and brain tumors because a malignant brain tumor might take between ten and twenty years to develop, and the general public hasn’t been using cell phones long enough to effectively study the risk.

That will soon change. “In the years 2008-2012, we will have reached the appropriate length of follow-up time to being to definitely observe the impact of this global technology on brain tumor incidence rates,” Khurana says.

Khurana urges people to avoid using cell phones as much as possible, and calls for the cell phone industry to make the devices safer by reducing the user’s exposure to electromagnetic radiation.