.....VERSUS.... 
Posted on 04/01/2008 3:58:11 PM PDT by indcons
London, March 30: Puffing kills. But a new study, led by an Indian-origin researcher, claims that mobiles phones are more dangerous than fags.
"Though mobiles can save lives in emergencies, there is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumours (which can lead to cancer).
"It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking," the study`s lead author Dr Vini Khurana was quoted by `the independent` newspaper as saying.
Smoking kills some five million worldwide each year, according to the world health organisation.
But Dr Khurana, who has based the findings on an analysis of over 100 researches on the effects of cell phones, said the radiation from mobiles could kill far more people than smoking.
"We are currently experiencing a reactively unchecked and dangerous situation. This will be definitively proven in the next decade," he said.
The leading cancer expert said that 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.
"Unless the industry and governments take immediate and decisive steps, the incidence of malignant brain tumours and associated death rate will be observed to rise globally within a decade from now, by which time it may be far too late to intervene medically," according to him.
However, the mobile operators association has dismissed Dr Khurana`s study as "a selective discussion of scientific literature by one individual"
Headline of the day!
Yeah, I checked to see if the article was about San Francisco.
You’re comparing cell phone to fags, no offense.
More British humor. There is a headline writer having a good laugh at Americans that view this story.
I guess it all depends on where you’ve been sticking your mobile phone.
In England, a fag can give you cancer.
In America, a fag can give you AIDS.
Well, sure, you can't catch those diseases from a cell phone..........
Oh wait, they mean tobacco..........
A pager will do the same job, I'm told... not that I know firsthand, mind you...
...not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Hmm? What about fags using mobiles? Do the risks compound?
LOL at all replies on this thread so far.
I could be wrong, but I think it was common slang for cigarette here in america at one time too. Also, I was told once as a kid that “fagging” is the old fashioned term for “flagging”, which means lagging behind or tiring out. Kinda strange how we went from fag, to flag, to lag.
.....VERSUS....
LOL
didn’t even need to reed the story!!!
Thanks for the headline.
LOL!!!!!!!
Reminds me of the Eddie Murphy routine about going downtown yelling at faggots - “Hey, faggot! People forget, man - faggots are dudes. They’ll beat your @$$. You know how embarrassing it is to get your @$$ beat by a faggot?”
Well I’m not about to let a fag anywhere near my mouth.
I thought you might appreciate this headline.
Comment of the day
thanks for the laugh!
there is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumoursLuckily, the tinfoil hat blocks the harmful waves.
Gotta love the Brits! If a newspaper printed a headline like that in this country, they’d have the entire left and their usual buddies the ACLU coming at them at ramming speed.
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