Mobile phones more dangerous than smoking or asbestor

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Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation.

The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most devastating indictment yet published of the health risks.

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Using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer. Cancers take at least a decade to develop, invalidating official safety assurances based on earlier studies which included few, if any, people who had used the phones for that long.

Earlier this year, the French government warned against the use of mobile phones, especially by children. Germany also advises its people to minimise handset use, and the European Environment Agency has called for exposures to be reduced.

Professor Khurana – a top neurosurgeon who has received 14 awards over the past 16 years, has published more than three dozen scientific papers – reviewed more than 100 studies on the effects of mobile phones.

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The Mobile Operators Association dismissed Khurana's study as "a selective discussion of scientific literature by one individual". It believes he "does not present a balanced analysis" of the published science, and "reaches opposite conclusions to the WHO and more than 30 other independent expert scientific reviews".

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/he...2602.html?r=RSS

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation.

The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most devastating indictment yet published of the health risks.

...

Using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer. Cancers take at least a decade to develop, invalidating official safety assurances based on earlier studies which included few, if any, people who had used the phones for that long.

Earlier this year, the French government warned against the use of mobile phones, especially by children. Germany also advises its people to minimise handset use, and the European Environment Agency has called for exposures to be reduced.

Professor Khurana – a top neurosurgeon who has received 14 awards over the past 16 years, has published more than three dozen scientific papers – reviewed more than 100 studies on the effects of mobile phones.

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The Mobile Operators Association dismissed Khurana's study as "a selective discussion of scientific literature by one individual". It believes he "does not present a balanced analysis" of the published science, and "reaches opposite conclusions to the WHO and more than 30 other independent expert scientific reviews".

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/he...2602.html?r=RSS

That'll go down well in the UK. A few years ago there was a small panic when it was discovered that Mobile phone antennas were being placed near people's houses, inside service station price towers - and mounted on the walls and McDonalds restaurants.

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

now that i'm aware of the dangers of a cell phone, i'm sending one to my ex wife.

[Peikko 1,575]

Another gazillion dollar industry that will fight tooth and nail to prevent anyone finding out exactly how dangerous it might prove to be. I don't know if it's true or not but even if it wasn't, the obsession with using mobile phones is a curious phenomena. Maybe the mobile phone is the new smoking?

[SnowyTater 0]

There IS actually a study and hypothesis that cell phone useage is the new smoking!

Apparently rates of smoking has dropped (don't know how much, but I guess enough to notice) amongst young people in the past few years. Some dudes wanted to try to figure out why and they concluded that the drop happened around the same time that cellphones became so popular.

The theory is that smoking and cell phones both are status symbols, so make teenagers and young people you know...inherently awesome. Thus the attraction.

I never use a cellphone really so I'm not worried about the brain cancer thing but I don't want everyone to suddenly break out with it in a decade, geez And I anticipate I'll have to start using one pretty soon, and I was just gonna get a cellphone and skip having a home phone (who needs it these days?) to save money, so this is all bad news...

I really, really don't want the day to come that I have a nine year old that starts screaming that he/she "NEEDS" a cellphone and deal with all that 'but everyone else has one!' stuff. Ugh I hope my kids are cool.

[Kazan' Tiger 1]

Funny... I just had this discussion with my fiancée a few weeks back. "Jeffery, will you buy son a phone in America? Some boys have them in Russia. He wants too." No, dear, a 9 year old does not need a phone! My own 12 year old son does not have one either. We'll discuss this again when he gets into high school.

There IS actually a study and hypothesis that cell phone useage is the new smoking!

Apparently rates of smoking has dropped (don't know how much, but I guess enough to notice) amongst young people in the past few years. Some dudes wanted to try to figure out why and they concluded that the drop happened around the same time that cellphones became so popular.

The theory is that smoking and cell phones both are status symbols, so make teenagers and young people you know...inherently awesome. Thus the attraction.

I never use a cellphone really so I'm not worried about the brain cancer thing but I don't want everyone to suddenly break out with it in a decade, geez And I anticipate I'll have to start using one pretty soon, and I was just gonna get a cellphone and skip having a home phone (who needs it these days?) to save money, so this is all bad news...

I really, really don't want the day to come that I have a nine year old that starts screaming that he/she "NEEDS" a cellphone and deal with all that 'but everyone else has one!' stuff. Ugh I hope my kids are cool.

[MrsCat 6]

now that i'm aware of the dangers of a cell phone, i'm sending one to my ex wife.

[DeadPoolX 9]

My wife has been telling me this sort of stuff for a long time. It's hard to know what's "fact" and what isn't, since new studies are constantly coming out, stating one thing as "true" and then next year, something else is instead. I don't think anyone really knows.

[Reynaldo 0]

I am going to divorce Alex because she's been using her cellphone behind my back...

[Sister Fracas 5]

Glad I don't feel the need to be obsessively attached to one like so many people I see....

[Ban Hammer 13,337]

I am going to divorce Alex because she's been using her cellphone behind my back...

oooooooooo

[Reynaldo 0]

I am going to divorce Alex because she's been using her cellphone behind my back...

oooooooooo

We built a relationship based on no mobile comunication and I have been betrayed...

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What if she bought you a Volvo truck....

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Another gazillion dollar industry that will fight tooth and nail to prevent anyone finding out exactly how dangerous it might prove to be. I don't know if it's true or not but even if it wasn't, the obsession with using mobile phones is a curious phenomena. Maybe the mobile phone is the new smoking?

I dunno - there's been plenty of research to suggest that there are no long term health effects, but who knows.

I'd be more worried about a CJD epidemic than this.

[Heracles 417]

Talk on speakerphone and the problem is solved. The other thing is that there are a range of factors such as the frequency the phone works on as well as the transmission method. Any phone that works in the lower frequencies such as Verizon is probably much safer as the phone does not require anywhere near as much power to transmit the call.

You can also get cell phones where the antenna is not near you brain. I know the Sprint A900 has an antenna towards the bottom of the phone; near you mouth. Ideally everyone should be looking at the SAR rating when buying a cell phone anyway. It is in the manual..