I realize this is off topic, but think it's important enough to all of us to be posted here (at least initially).

CNN: Cell phone use can increase possible cancer risk

"Radiation from cell phones can possibly cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization.
The WHO now lists mobile phone use in the same 'carcinogenic hazard' category as lead, engine exhaust and chloroform.
Before this recent announcement last month, WHO had assured consumers that no adverse health effects had been established."
I wonder now if there's anything else we aren't being told about (yet)?

Based on this report, and the fact that different cell phone brand/models emit different anounts of SAR levels (RF absorbed by the body),
have you made any changes in your brand/model cell phone owned:

cnet:
Cell Phone Radiation Make & Model Radiation Levels

or the way you use it when talking (speakerphone, remote headset vs up to your ear)
or securing it (away from your body, vs in your front pants pocket)?

Will cell phone use by young people today be linked to developing (brain) cancer 30 years down the road,
the way cigarette smoking have been proven to greatly increase the risk for lung cancer,
or are we simply over reacting?

Please share your thoughts and opinions.

Scott,
Your eyes are much younger than mine, but I find that yellow font color a little blinding. Maybe it's just me, but it's not a link, and if you're just using it for extra emphasis ... I'd love to suggest a new color!
Thanx,
UD

Hi Scott,

I try never to agree with the old Uncle (just kidding, David) but I also find the yellow font color very difficult to read, and actually have to run the cursor over it to make it more legible.

As far as cell phones, I have yet to buy one, and so far haven't had the need for one, but it will be interesting to see the other comments, as I'm sure many here on SZ use them.

I have seen this warning before, perhaps a year or so ago, and often wondered if there was any truth in it.

I would also like to know if the same risk would apply to portable phones?

Ian

Unfortunately it's too late to go back and edit my post now,
but I'll try to choose a less

blinding

color next time.
In the meantime, slip these on:

Blinding yellow text could possibly cause cancer ....

I have seen possible cancer warnings on probably all and everything out there..

Like eating to much meat, drinking anything else but water, Eating spinach...

With the improvement of receiving equipment, the transmitting power of the cellphones might be lwoered further... removing their hazardous character even further.

I would not worry about this..



And i could not live or work without my smartphone anymore. There is just to many important things running on it. Making phone calls (except emergency ones) is probably the least important function of it.

Lol Bachus...i have 600 minutes on my cell and out of that i waste
like 25 minutes monthly...why do i have it? You know the story.

What all do you do with it?

My cell phone died a few days ago (probably from cancer) and I damned near panicked. Then I thought to myself "What the Hell are you thinking?" I'm old enough to vividly recall when there were no cellular telephones, and back then I didn't really need a cell phone to do anything. My 40-year-old daughter never turns her phone off. It's her primary form of communication. I only turn MINE on when I need to call someone in an emergency, which is extremely rare. Far too many people in this part of the world live and DIE for, and because of, their cellular telephones.

I know entertainers that list their cellular phone numbers on their Web sites, business cards, pens, calendars, etc.., as if they could book a job on their cell and looking at their schedule, while driving 70 MPH in bumper to bumper traffic down a busy interstate. Some have their schedules on their phones. Try browsing through that schedule, reading that tiny, tiny print, using one hand, and of course never taking the other hand off the wheel, or never taking your eyes off the traffic on the Garden State Parkway, Long Island Expressway or I-95.

I was broadsided six years ago by an idiot that was talking on his cell phone and looking at a map resting on his steering wheel while driving south on I-95 near the Baltimore Beltway (I-695). I was on my way to a job, my van was totaled and the idiot that hit me didn't have insurance. Therefore, for all you guys and gals that insist you MUST have a cell phone at all times, try turning it off while driving--it's amazing how much nicer that drive is when you're just listening to some soft music on the radio. If you're anything like my daughter, though, you'll probably have a panic attack because the phone is not jammed in your ear, or worse yet, you'll miss a text message.

From my perspective, the risk of cancer from your cellular telephone is probably much lower than having an accident because of your cell phone. And of course, everyone knows this couldn't happen to them.

Cheers,

Gary

Fact is, a cell phone is pretty much a 'necessary evil' ... when was the last time you saw a public pay phone???