CELLPHONE - TO DIE FOR?

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Cellphones and Brain Tumors

15 Reasons for Concern

Science, Spin and the Truth Behind Interphone

August 25, 2009

Full report available at :

http://www.radiationresearch.org/pdfs/reasons_us.pdf

A quote from the main editor of this report:

“Exposure to cellphone radiation is the

largest human health experiment ever

undertaken, without informed consent,

and has some 4 billion participants

enrolled. Science has shown increased

risk of brain tumors from use of

cellphones, as well as increased risk of eye

cancer, salivary gland tumors, testicular

cancer, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and

leukemia. The public must be informed.”

L. Lloyd Morgan, USA, Bioelectromagnetics

Society, Electronics Engineer (retired)

Here are 8 simple steps you can take to substantially reduce your or your children’s, exposure to cellphone radiation:

1. When on a call, use a wired headset (not a wireless headset such as a Bluetooth), or use

in speaker-phone mode, or send text messages. [7]

2. Keep the cellphone away from your body (particularly pant/trouser or shirt pockets) or use a belt holster designed to shield the body from cellphone radiation, when not in use (stand-by mode).

3. Avoid use in a moving car, train, bus, or in rural areas at some distance from a cell

tower (AKA mast or base station) as any of these uses will increase the power of the

cellphone’s radiation. [7]

4. Use the cellphone like an answering machine. Keep it off until you want to see who has called. Then return calls, if necessary, using steps 5 and 1.

5. Use a corded land-line phone, whenever possible, instead of a wireless phone.

6. Avoid use inside of buildings, particularly with steel structures.

7. Do not allow your children to sleep with a cellphone beneath their pillow or at the bedside.

8. Do not allow your children under 18 to use a cellphone except in emergencies.

The Precautionary Principle

Applied to Cellphone Use

Simply put the Precautionary Principle is a policy that says if there is some evidence that a

problem may exist, and low or no-cost actions are available, then these actions should be

undertaken. Colloquially, we say, “Better safe than sorry.” If cellphones induce brain tumors

the potential public health costs are enormous. There is a simple action that can reduce the

absorbed cellphone radiation by several orders-of-magnitude (factors-of-10) for virtually no

cost.

Cellphone radiation decreases as the square of the distance from the phone. As a result even

small changes in distance have a dramatic effect. For example, say when the speaker on the cellphone is placed to the ear, the cellphone is 0.1 inch (2.5 mm) from the head, and if the

cellphone is held 10 inches (25 cm) it is 100 times farther from the head. The square of 100 is

10,000. Because of the inverse square decrease of radiation with distance, this increase in

distance would result in a 10,000-fold reduction in the radiation absorbed by the head.

With use of a headset (not a wireless headset) connected to a cellphone, the cellphone is not held directly against the ear and thus the absorbed cellphone radiation could be reduced by several orders-of-magnitude.

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