Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking!'

[sandrajo]

Brain expert warns of huge rise in tumours and calls on industry to take immediate steps to reduce radiation

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.
The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most devastating indictment yet published of the health risks.

It draws on growing evidence � exclusively reported in the IoS in October � that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer. Cancers take at least a decade to develop, invalidating official safety assurances based on earlier studies which included few, if any, people who had used the phones for that long.


http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health -and-wellbeing/health-news/mobile-phones-more- dangerous-than-smoking-or-asbestos-802602.html ?r=RSS

An interesting read here, but will it stop you using your mobile phone???

[delboy3]

Most people I see using their mobiles already seem brain-dead ;-p

[stokemaveric]

scary stuff indeed,but what about not just brain tumors,what about people who carry their mobiles in their jeans pockets as i do most of the time will that increase say cancer in the groin or lower parts of the body?cos its the actual radio waves that will emit the radoactivity i guess.or people who carry them in their jacket pockets will that increase say lung cancers?if phone companies know the risks they should say so immedeatley and so should the government.

[Ice.Maiden]

Absolutely. I hate the damned things.

[sp1214]

I had a cousin who died of a brain tumour. He was always on his mobile phone.

[daffy654]

I have grown immune to the health scare stories now. If we avoided all the things that are supposed to be dangerous or bad for our health then we may as well just live in a sterile environment and never eat solid food or leave the house. I have stopped smoking and I eat a healthy diet but that is as far as it goes for me.

[jake-the-peg]

The report is here:
http://www.brain-surgery.us/mobph.pdf

I have skimmed it and basically there's no new science here.

It's a meta-study, i.e. a review of the existing research. I don't think there's anything that we didn't know already.

Heavy mobile phone usage can be associated with brain tumors

Children are likely to be more vulnerable than adults.

I don't see anything that substantiiates the claim that it's "more dangerous than smoking or asbestos"

Having said that I don't go around with a mobile phone earpiece!

[keyplus90]

I am not a scientist but do you think it is dangerous even if you do not use and other people are using around you.

In the office, on the train or bus, at any public place. Just imagine mobile phones are every where now a days. If it is not in your pocket then it is in some one's pocket not far from you. Are we still in the danger of radiation?

[jake-the-peg]

No because the power drops off with the inverse square of distance.

It's holding it close to your head that's the problem.