Mobile phones ‘more dangerous than smoking’ - Health News, Health & Wellbeing - The

[jason]

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Mobile phones ‘more dangerous than smoking’ - Health News, Health & Wellbeing - The Independent

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.

I don’t like them or use them much, and I’m sure that bluetooth or other ear pieces so you don’t have the cellphone transceiver next to your skull would help.

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Cellphone can cause brain cancer

[vathsala34.livejournal.com]

Reading this article was not shocking to me at all. I know that cell phones were damage to our brains due to the radiation that we are exposed to. BUT what I am shocked about it that it could kill more people than smoking would.

I have always been such a freak about safety; it may not be a good thing all the time, because I get paranoid very easily. I tend to read a lot of stuff or hear something from someone I trust, and try to follow things more safely and in healthy ways. I am a health freak, and I make everyone else around me like that too. My friends would always call me a “health freak”, because I would scold them if I see them eating McDonalds every week like 5 times! Yes I do have friends that are like that, and they aren’t living a very active life on top of that! So I always “scold” them and tell them you need to hit the gym! This is just an example of how I am with people.

I know many people who smoke; but I have no tolerance for smoking. Smelling it around me, gets me very “panicked” and unable to breath, so I hate that people get second hand smoke which is even worse!

Talking about cell phones; we all could agree that they are very useful. Now that I am so used to a cell phone, I can’t give it up at all. I remember the phase, where I lost my cell phone and couldn’t get one for a few weeks. I think those weeks in university was the worst for me; mostly because I was out, going to classes and traveling on the TTC. I hated the fact that I couldn’t find my friends, or tell my mom I was on my way home, so that she can pick me up half way. It was so difficult because I had to go all over the places for pay phones! Having my own cell phone was personal to me, like I had it with me all the time. I could make phone call when never I wanted, talk to anyone when I have to, ask my sister to send my essay that I forgot to save on my USB, find out where my friends are, I had access to anything and everything. Living in a world like this where technology just keeps advancing how can people think of giving up cell phone?

Although we read so many things in the newspaper, and see so much in the media; sometimes it’s so hard to change things that you have become so used to. It kind of is like an addiction to have a cell phone…just like smoking, and I think it can be as hard as giving up smoking because it’s a mental addiction. It may sound “crazy” I guess to say it’s an addiction, but to me I feel that it would be hard to get rid of my cell phone even though I know it has a danger “brain tumor”. Saying the word scares me so much, but to give up my cell phone is scary too. For me sometimes I find that having a cell phone is a safety issue. For example when I go home late from school or work, etc my cell phone is like my pal. I usually call my mom, and let her know that I am on the bus and she knows that I should be home in 15 minutes, so if anything goes wrong she knows it has to be past 15 minutes. I usually call my friend or boyfriend while I walk down my street, but I am also alert to the things around me. This way I know someone was on the phone with them, and if something happens they know what to do. This is just one example I know of, but there are many others.

I am not sure what conclusion can be brought for Mobile phones being an issue in safety in health matter; but I could say that people can be encouraged to use Bluetooth, or ear sets to avoid too much closeness to the actual phone. As mentioned in the article using cell phone for 10 years or more can double the risk of cancer. Can you imagine what health related problems will arise from the improvement in technology? Now they have found out that cell phone cause brain cancer; what other technologies are going to cause more health issues down the road? What if cancer rates keep going up high? Is technology improving really beneficial to the human population or is it a threat?

So if government doesn’t make any moves or makes any appropriate decisions, the brain tumors and death associated with it can hit high soon. What does the future generation have to experience? Cell phones are a major investment as many other things are, so how can we resolve this issue?


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Re: Cellphone can cause brain cancer

[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

It is true. It is true. But perhaps other things are worse?

Re: Cellphone can cause brain cancer

[vathsala34.livejournal.com]

Well, yes there are a lot of others things that can be worse, but cell phones are something most people use almost every hour of the day. With such a busy life on everyone's hands, there is no time to sit down to eat a healthy meal. People always place orders for takeout, or drive through. I mention this because cell phones really help a person who is too busy with life. For example I pretty much schedule my life everyday!!! waking up going to class, hitting the gym for an hour, class again, then work, home by 9, make lunch for the next day!, do school work and hit the bed by 11pm. sometimes I find it hard to make time to make lunch for me the next day...since I have to pack a big lunch (healthy) because I have a long day every day. I miss the times I use to be home to watch some T.V and do my little hobbies...Cell phones are a great danger to our health as the article mentions. But yes there are many other things out there, which are worse. Such things could be too much sunlight, and not even sun protection during the summer; which causes skin cancer, and many of the time people are not even aware of the UV rays that are damaging their skin, while they are out for a short walk with the dog. How about the plastic bottles that leak chemicals into our water; we are not aware of it, because many people think its clean water that has been treated so must be safe? Well think again, yes it is clean, but what about the plastic that's holding it...is it safe? How was it made? Small things like this, many people don't have the time to think of...at least I think they don't have the time to invest in (when I say invest, I mean their effort for a safe and healthy life). I think that it is hard in such a chaos society; people are living a life with "time" and "Schedule". Some people say they just don't have time to work out (to live healthy in other words), some just clearly ignore signs, some just believe in god and faith, and some believe others and the media out there etc. Everyone has their own beliefs, after all that is what makes us all unique right? So, even now someone after reading this could argue with me that cell phones risks are "nothing" compared to this and that. Do you think anyone would give up technology, and live a life before too much technology even existed? let alone technology, there are many other things like the food we eat that are genetically modified, because we don’t have enough time to let them grow naturally; it's a demand! So who is to say what will be more important?