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Skriven 2007-01-24 20:54:38 av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
Ärende: cell phones - cigarettes of the 21st century?
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From: "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@dontspamhotmail.com>

"Table for two? Will that be cell phone or non-cell phone?"


http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2556550,00.html

Could these be the cigarettes of the 21st century? . . . 'Absolutely'

# It's right to have worries, says expert
# 'Don't buy phones for primary pupils'


if we came expecting reassurance from this bearded, 6ft 4in grandfather, the
emeritus professor of physics who heads the Government's mobile phone safety
research, we are about to be a little shaken. We begin by asking if this isn't
all a bit old hat. Haven't we all got into an unnecessary lather about the
dangers of mobiles, and wireless techno-logy? There are all these vague
concerns - "There should be," Lawrie Challis cuts in.

Oh. This is the more disconcerting because Professor Challis is one of the
world's experts on mobile phone radiation, and chairs the mobile
telecommunications health research programme. He has some good news: the first
batch of research it has done, soon to be published, confirms that mobile
phones are safe in the short term, under ten years. But there is less good
news. "It's encouraging because they found nothing for people who've used
phones for less than ten years, But there is a hint of something for people
using them more."

Now, being a respected scientist, Professor Challis is keen to emphasise that
this "hint" remains just that. A massive European study called Interphone,
partly funded by his group, found a slight association between the risk of
brain tumours and using a mobile for more than ten years. But the problem is
that the number of people involved was so small: more than a decade ago, hard
as it to imagine now, we did not all have handsets glued to our ears. Yes, the
few long-term users got more tumours "but it could be by chance", he says.

http://www.mobilemag.com/content/100/340/C11433/

 A study, spanning five European countries (Denmark, Finland, Norway,
Sweden, and the UK), found a nearly 40% increase in a particular type of brain
tumor (gliomas) among people who have used a cell phone for ten or more years.
This paper will be published in the International Journal of Cancer. Based on
this study, it is prolonged or extended use that could cause problems, rather
than short-term acute exposure. The same can be said about taking X-rays, for
example, where infrequent low-intensity exposure causes very minimal damage, if
any.

Of course, in this day and age, there is no such thing as infrequent exposure
to a cell phone. What's even scarier is a headline in the London Times that
read "Could These Be the Cigarettes of the 21st Century?...'Absolutely'."

"Table for two? Will that be cell phone or non-cell phone?"

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