Cancer Expert: Cell Phones More Dangerous Than Smoking Or Asbestos

I'd heard this from a cancer researcher before. She said she uses the
speaker as often as possible to keep the phone away from her head.

This is another hot issue where the government has allowed us to be killed, like war in Iraq, for the big bucks...d*mn us...now all of us will be trying to get health insurance companies to pay for our medical bills and they are going to say we are not covered...RIP OFF! the entire country. We are so tied to our cell phones it would take 30 years or more ..just like cigarettes, coffee, dairy products, etc.

I say we don't do anything about this problem until we can weed out all the annoying serial cell phone users (10 years at least). You know the people I am referring to, the ones that take an extra 5 minutes at the checkout line because they have only one hand and the other is holding the phone to their heads, the ones that hold the phone to their ears in such a way that causes their elbows to knock into anybody nearby. Also included are the teens who talk on their phones so loudly that you can't help to hear their vapid conversations (really great on buses or trains). How about those drivers who are so busy talking that they don't move when the traffic light changes or they take 5 minutes to make a right turn with only one hand free.

I say we let these "talkers" get weeded out (survival of the smartest) before we do something about this.

It was simply a matter of time before research was going to reveal the risks posed by prolonged exposure to both mobile phones and wifi on notebooks etc...Just a matter of time....And the billion dollar tech industries will be fighting these reports much like Big Tobacco fought research on the dangers of nicotine etc.

I'm not trying to dispute this study, but I'd like to boil it down to what it really means and it's real numbers. From this article, I see that using a cell phone is twice as dangerous as not using a cell phone. But what does that mean? A 1 in 10 danger becomes 1 in 5? Or a 1 in 10000 becomes 1 in 5000? Saying "twice" doesn't necessarily scare me.

As someone who has not owned a cell phone since I quit working for a major telecom company, I rarely say this, but you (all of you) really had it coming.

I TOLD YOU SO.

Physics. It's not just a good idea, it's the law.

Bad comments page - trying to read light-green text on a light-gray background gives me a headache - oh, and looks sucky.

Anybody agree?

By study you mean unpublished, non peer reviewed collection of unsubstantiated ramblings of unqualified quacks and nut jobs on the internet.

if you want to read some actual analysis of this story, go here - http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/2008/03/cell_phones_and_cancer_real_or.php

Your article is credulous and incompetent. Perhaps you could try some journalism rather than unthinking fear-mongering.

Hopefully, studies will show that second-hand radiation from cell phones is equally dangerous and we can quickly move to outlaw their use in public places. (I'm serious.) Forget about cigarettes, microwave radiation is like getting x-rays. We're barbequing our brains out. (It's no wonder the bees are all dying.)

This is all Dick Tracy's fault. If he hadn't had that two-way wrist radio in his watch we'd all be just fine. (Some detective he was, huh?)

And here's the real question,

What are we going to do about workplace exposure to Second Hand Cell?

http://www.wlsam.com/article.asp?id=638124&SPID=12107

Cigarettes have been around a lot longer than cell phones. Of course, these rumors have existed for years, always denied, never proven. Now we're supposed to worry about cell phones after all. How about telephone lines, clock radios, electric shavers and blankets? And, last but not least- stress!

If cell phones are so much worse than smoking, why is smoke related disease one of the largest killers and brain cancer one of the fewest?

Next up... YOUR UNDERWEAR CAN KILL YOU!

Film at 11:00.

Scientist discover the leading cause of death is life. In a recent study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientist at the WHO conducted a multi-year study which shows a high corrolation between living and death.

"We studied a cross section of the international population comparing risk factors such as smoking, obesity, cell phone use and fugliness. Suprisingly what we found was a high corrolation between those who were living and then later died." said Dr Smith.

His colleague went a step further. "In every single instance of mortality, we found a common risk factor - namely that each person had at one time been alive. The only conclusion we could reach is that life leads to death."

Health activitist with the WHO are calling on member nations to enact policies to deal with the life problem within their populations.

President Bush was quoted as saying "The US and A has already lead the way in Iraq and New Orleans and what the hell is the WHO anyway?".

I don't have to wait around for the adverse health effects caused by cell phones and wireless routers. I can't be around wireless hotspots without feeling like my whole body is vibrating, and if I'm around it long enough I get violently sick. I can feel it in my body when I'm about to get a call on my cell phone before it rings or vibrates. We've only had this technology for around ten years, so NO ONE knows what the long term health effects are. Everyday more cell towers and more powerful wireless routers are put up without a thought to whether or not this stuff is eventually going to make people sick. It took centuries and millions dead before people began believing that smoking was harmful. We'll repeat the same mistakes with technology, meanwhile the number of kids with autism grows at a staggering rate, and our bodies need more and more drugs to stay healthy. Everyone can argue about whether or not cell phones and electromagnetic frequencies from wireless routers are harmful, but to me it seems like the fight over global warming. If there's a possibility that there could be a global disaster, why wouldn't we want to take steps to avoid it? I'm reminded of this problem everyday of my life because there's no way for me to avoid being zapped by these things that are supposed to make our lives easier.

Well ... something is going to kill you.


Reality Check: Doctor's don't save lives, they postpone Death.

April fool? Otherwise--yikes!

From what I can tell from a quick search of this guy's publication record in PubMed, it looks like he's published a few papers on brain aneurisms, but he's not an oncologist, and I doubt he knows what he's talking about when it comes to non-ionizing radiation and brain cancer. In fact, a recent meta-analysis shows that cell-phone users are slightly LESS likely (by about 10 percent) to develop brain tumors.

http://tinyurl.com/39yaeq

So, to me, the most hazardous aspect of cell phone usage is getting smacked upside the head for forgetting to turn your ringer off at the movies.

If you are going to use a cellphone, use a headset to reduce your exposure. http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/apr2005/tc20050427_5651.htm

MSNBC had a medical expert on today talking about this. She said basically all this guy did, was compile a bunch of information from online articles, but no real test has been done to prove this theory right? Or he wasn't basing it off of any realistic tests.They still don't know if it is true or not. This guy could be totally right but an actual and long term test needs to be conducted or have been going on already to find out if it i true. You can't just piece together a few articles and claim it's a legitimate study.

microwaves are non-ionizing.

I used to get aching ears after long convos on the celly till I got a device that sticks to it and emits a long wavelength sound that is inaudible and cancels out the high frequencies. Believe it, its true. The high frequencies emited cause a heating or speeding up of the molecules and that can't be good. If it isn't natural than I say be careful and cautious. To those that poo poo it go brush with some more flouride or take a big drink of flouridated water because chances are its over your head anyways.