Posted on 03/30/2008 1:20:20 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Study: Cell Phones Could Be More Dangerous Than Cigarettes
Sunday , March 30, 2008
A study by an award-winning cancer expert shows that cell phone use could kill more people than smoking, it is reported.
According to the U.K.'s Independent newspaper, the study, headed by Dr. Vini Khurana, shows that there is a growing body of evidence that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer.
Khurana — one of the world's top neurosurgeons — based his assessment on the fact that three billion people now use the phones worldwide. That is three times higher than people who smoke. Smoking kills some five million globally each year.
He warned that people should avoid using handsets whenever possible and called on the phone industry to make them safer.
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Why the hell would anybody smoke a cell phone?
I know that I’ve wanted to kill more than one cell phone user in a restaurant.
Pingarooni!
They are deadly when used while behind the wheel of a car, as I’ve observed from my fellow drivers, swerving while yacking, oblivious to the world around them.
“I know that I’ve wanted to kill more than one cell phone user in a restaurant.”
LOL!!
I think this is the REAL threat to cell phone users.
;^)
If I have a long conversation, I put it on speaker phone.
Business associate and I were having lunch in a local Mexican restaurant, around 1999 or so. This gal next to us had one of those super-annoying walkie-talkie phones that did the screech before each message.
As you can imagine the restaurant itself was not exactly quiet. But we had the misfortune of sitting about 5 feet from her.
To give her a break, it was her idiot boss calling about 10 times in a 30 minute span. And I’m rather non-complaining on cell phones; I can usually get around them unless it’s some clown entering a 65mph freeway at 25mph while yakking.
I think these were Nextel(?) phones? Yikes, they were awful with that screech.
But ten years ago, digital phones were just coming out. The old analog phones transmit much more powerful signals than the newer digital ones. I think it would be important to find out what the sample dates were.
Remember when they said stay 6 feet from your TV.
And microwaves?? Beware!!
And what about our PC screens? My eyes certainly have degraded from being on the computer a lot.
And what about the new wave technology for our TV's?
“Why the hell would anybody smoke a cell phone?”
My laff for today....you are good! THanks.
Should’a thrown a tortilla at her.
She kept giving us a look like ‘what are you lookin’ at?’
But I imagine other folks soon were giving her the same look.
Since she was not the one originating the call I decided to give her a break. I don’t think she had any choice and it came off as if the phone was company-issued.
Can you imagine if 100 patrons in the same restaurant did the same thing though? Wow ...
Hey, once-in-awhile I’m a kind, forgiving guy, LOL
I have.It fell out of my pocket and I run over it with the truck I was working on.Smoked like hell.
Think about the last few times that someone has done some stupid act while driving and then how often you notice the driver has a cell phone pressed up against the side of his or her head. Based on my own observations, I'm inclined to believe the studies that have shown that driving while talking on a cell phone is as dangerous as driving drunk. As any law enforcement officer will tell you, most drunk drivers slow down recognizing their own impairment, people talking on cell phones while driving never seem to.
I like to light up when I get on my cell phone.
They’re much harder to light.
Clapping a microwave-generator to your head 25 times a day has never seemed to me all that great an idea.
But, if there is ever a conclusive correlation made, look for it to be buried. This would be the biggest class-action lawsuit in the history of the universe.
Well if that is the case then there will be another problem adding to it. Cell phones are basically in the 800MHZ range just a few hundred MHZ short of actual microwave frequencies. Now in many homes however are 2.4 GHZ cordless phones which fall into the microwave spectrum. Just on principle knowing what I know about radio frequencies I usually use a headset if possible when using my cell. For one thing it’s a lot more convient especially driving and a lot safer also. While in a store I don’t have to yell to so the person I’m talking to can hear me either. Another thing is it keeps the transciever away from my body which in general is a good practice anyway. But I would say this study is fearmongering though.
My carpool partner has smoked two cell-phones while driving... his riding mower. They fell out of his pocket and almost immediately came in contact with the mower blade. They smoked up real good.
Isn’t it more this guy’s opinion rather than an actual scientific study?
coming to a neighborhood near you...Cell phone hour restrictions and no cell phone usage at playgrounds or near school...It’s for your protection you know..
Sounds like it to me. But RF burns are a reality IF the power {wattage} is high enough and the frequency high enough. Cell phones and cordless home phones are supposed to be well below the threshold of that combined danger.
Nah, the biggest one would be when they show the damage that government-MANDATED vaccines cause. However, it would be a big one.
The old monster cellphones were lethal.
Is that what second-hand cell looks like?
Smells awful,too.Regarding the artical,I use the speaker phone and hold it away while I’m driving.Knowing my luck,that’s where the most concentration of radiation or whatever is, makes it easier to penetrate every other orifice of your body and speeds faster to the brain turning me into some 1950’s b-grade movie mutant.
Speakerphone is smart. But a large study in London a couple of years ago revealed that using headphones with your “mobile” increases rather than decreases the risk of brain damage. Parents there had apparently been buying headsets for their kids to keep the phones far away as possible from the little darlings. Didn’t work.
Let me seeeeee. A phone manufacturer (with a “safer phone” waiting in the wings) puts out the word that there will be a handsome reward going to the first “scientific expert” to be willing to come out with a scare-monger article showing evidence that people should buy safer phones if they don’t want to get brain cancer, and voila!
What will the “scientific experts” do when they have lost all credibility after selling themselves to the highest bidder (in politics and business)?
Or not.
It's coming. And soon, but perhaps there's still time to get a law degree and cash in. Huge bucks will be awarded.
I’ve got John Edwards on speed dial.
Now that's what I call a safe driver.
And mother’s milk contains cancer cells.
Oh yeah? Try sticking a cigarette up to your ear. I’ll take the cell phone any day.
Have you ever smoked a Cuban cell phone? It is an awesome experience.
The only problem with smoking a cell phone, is that you have to 1st grind up the cell phone and then roll it in tobacco paper.
It takes some time to do.
That’s funny, the CDC shows a steady to declining rate of brain cancer in the US:
http://statecancerprofiles.cancer.gov/cgi-bin/quickprofiles/profile.pl?49&076
I smoked a memory chip once. It went all red and then, poof .. it got cancer and died. (must have been cancer)
Cell phones don't kill people, people kill people.
The “cell phone walk and talk”!
spoken like a true public health epidemiologist!!
I’ve been known to do it (guilty). My favorite (least) after the notorious walkie-talkie-screech phone (I never hear them out there anymore) is the guy-at-a-business-counter-with-Bluetooth-in-ear-trying-to-yak-and-do-business-with-merchant.
Lotsa “huh’s?”, “whaaa?”, “hang on a sec...”, etc.
dont forget to lean on the microwave and watch the tv on top while it cooks your supper. If you have an old asbestos ironing board cover, you could iron while doing all the above!!!
We’re doomed!!
I run the IT help desk for my company. I have the help desk phone and my desk phone forwarded to my cell. I have two bluetooth handsfree devices that I use constantly. I’ve read these articles with interest for several years now. I wonder if using the earpieces makes me more or less susceptible to any of the future health concerns related to cell phone use.
Having just had a “heart event” and been diagnosed with diabetes AND facing the big five-oh in August, I’m having a tough time coming to grips with the possibility that I might be mortal.
Wow, taking the base line of "smoking deaths" that's got to be up to 6 trillion a year now, this is really scary.
Unless you choose to ignore the latest grant junkie "study."
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