Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking'

High EGT

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I cant wait to tell my teenage daughter just to see the look on her face:yahoo:

Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded.
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"there is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumours". He believes this will be "definitively proven" in the next decade.
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Late last week, the Mobile Operators Association dismissed Khurana's study as "a selective discussion of scientific literature by one individual".
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Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking' - Health News, Health & Wellbeing - The Independent
 
ylexot

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Can I start telling people to stop using their cell phones near me because it causes second-hand brain tumors?
 
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My son saw this on the news and gave me the eyebrow. They haven't been around long enough to really know if there is an effect, but you have to think that some sort of wave activity right next to the brain may not be a good idea.
Of course last year he read Stephen King's Cell so he's been suspicious of phones for some time. Hasn't stopped him from using them but I notice more texting than talking.
 
Sharon

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Ban them in restaurants, stores, hospitals, doc's offices, etc!
 
AndyMarquisLIVE

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Sharon said:
Ban them in restaurants, stores, hospitals, doc's offices, etc!
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Text messaging or bust.

A lot of restaurants, stores and hospitals DO ban cell phones. It's just not enforced. Look at the places that ban food or drinks inside. Doesn't stop anyone.

Personally, I'd love it to be illegal for someone to sit there jabbering away on their cell phone - but all they'd do then is bring their yappy little dogs everywhere with them.
 
MMDad

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AndyMarquisLIVE said:
FOXNews.com - Study: Cell Phones Could Be More Dangerous Than Cigarettes - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News

Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking' - Health News, Health & Wellbeing - The Independent
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Fox says that a British newspaper says that an Australian neurosurgeon has posted a report on his website. :eyebrow:

That, right there, is the epitome of credibility. Especially in medical research.

If it isn't published in a medical journal, it's usually because the research cannot withstand the scrutiny of peer review.
 
AndyMarquisLIVE

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ylexot said:
Can I start telling people to stop using their cell phones near me because it causes second-hand brain tumors?
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YOU would have to go elsewhere. Now, swap the cell phone with a ciggeratte and the double standard takes effect - they'd have to go elsewhere.
 
Sharon

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AndyMarquisLIVE said:
A lot of restaurants, stores and hospitals DO ban cell phones.
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Where exactly? I've never seen signs saying "No cell phones" in any of those places.

The only place I can think of is courthouses; they won't let you bring them in at all in PG County.
 
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Sharon said:
Where exactly? I've never seen signs saying "No cell phones" in any of those places.

The only place I can think of is courthouses; they won't let you bring them in at all in PG County.
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Lighthouse Liqours has banned cell phones. No service if you're jabbering.
 
ylexot

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Sharon said:
Where exactly? I've never seen signs saying "No cell phones" in any of those places.

The only place I can think of is courthouses; they won't let you bring them in at all in PG County.
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I have seen signs at the hospital when you get to the patient room area. I think it's mainly to keep people from disturbing patients, but there may be other reasons as well.
 
Larry Gude

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Damn...

ylexot said:
Can I start telling people to stop using their cell phones near me because it causes second-hand brain tumors?
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...skippy! Just imagine all those poor victims who MUST work in bars who are bombarded with incessant second hand cell phone abuse because people can't smoke, so they make extra phone calls.

Yet one more case of the law of unintended consequences.

:jameo:
 
ylexot

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Larry Gude said:
...skippy! Just imagine all those poor victims who MUST work in bars who are bombarded with incessant second hand cell phone abuse because people can't smoke, so they make extra phone calls.

Yet one more case of the law of unintended consequences.

:jameo:
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All those people engaging in drunk dialing is going to kill me! :jameo:
 
High EGT

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It all makes sense now....

Since my wife continues to insist that “I’m not right” I’ve started drawing up papers for Verizon to pay my mental health bills.
:yahoo:
 
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ylexot said:
I have seen signs at the hospital when you get to the patient room area. I think it's mainly to keep people from disturbing patients, but there may be other reasons as well.
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I believe it has to do with the potential for the signals to mess with the hospital’s equipment. You wouldn't want a false reading on a heart monitoring machine because a cell phone signal caused issues.

I wouldn't be surprised to hear that medical evidence supports this notion later. Not at all.
 
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