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Cancer and Your Mobile Phone

by paul atkinson
Thursday, October 9, 2008. 06:33PM
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The studies are not in yet but the number of people using cellphones is growing at a lightning fast clip without regard to the possibilities of getting cancerous tumors in your head the amount of minutes we talk on our cellulars has steady gone up to 780 minutes per month.

Larry king has ran a number of specials on the debate with the last being about the death of celebrity laywer Johnnie Cochran from an inoperable brain tumor.

Now all phones sold in the U.S. must have a SAR below 1.66 watts per kilogram (W/Kg) according to the FCC whose guidelines have not been updated since 1996. And despite the debate now 41 percent of children aged 8-12 have cellular phones.

There’s plenty of good science for and against cellphones causing cancer and the debate is going to go on for some time sadly and im reminded of another industry that would’nt admit to their product doing any harm to people until their was conclusive evidence and many many sick and dead each year, does anyone remember big tobacco and what they have done to us? does anyone remember big tobacco with their lobbyists and laywers, the executives lying before congress for decades?

I’m wondering how much it would eat into the mobile phone makers profits to err on the side of caution and make phones that have some sort of protection from the radio waves? Don’t these executives have children? i wonder if they use cellphones?

How do the Mobile phone makers feel about being the Tobacco executives of our generation?

Below is an article claiming to have found links to cancer through cellphones.

Cell phone-cancer link found by Tel Aviv University scientist

Here’s another warning from Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute

Warning World Renowned Neurosurgeon: Cell Phone Use ‘Worse Than Smoking’ For Cancer Risk

Wouldn’t it be better for all of us if these money hungry executives took precautions now rather than later?

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Saturday, October 25, 2008. 09:37AM by Jesse Tayler
Unscientific nonsense! The electro magnetic waves created by my cell phone enhance my spinal cord and help my brain, so I wear two cell phones in my everyday life http://www.news-medical.net/?id=1415 everyone should keep their cell phones next to their ear and wear head magnets to bed at night.
Monday, October 20, 2008. 03:32AM by John Q Public
Newsflash. . . mankind created the circumstance that created cancer. Cancer is thanking mankind by killing us. Karma lives!
Thursday, October 16, 2008. 01:13PM by Whitney Smith
Almost everything causes cancer. I'm going to die from it. You might as well accept that fact too.
Sunday, October 12, 2008. 09:37AM by Buddy 'Friendly' Wachenheimer
Cancer related problems from being A Republican't are even worse.