Mobile phones are part of our everyday lives and we have all heard the hype about mobile phones and radiation but have never really held much by it. However a recent study by Dr. Vini Khurana shows the mobile phones could in fact be more dangerous than smoking or asbestos.
In october of 2008 the IOS reported that over 10 years the use of mobile phones can double the risk of brain cancer as cancers can take up to ten years to develop. While earlier studies may have concluded otherwise those studies had participants who would not have used a mobile phone for that long. As a result of this study the French government have warned against people and children in particular using mobile phones and the European Environment agency as well as the German government are trying to convince people to reduce the use of their headsets.
We all know that mobile phones are a vital part of our society for work, contact with friends and are prticularly useful in emergencies. Although Dr. Khurana agrees with this he also states that " There is a significant and increasing body for a link between mobile phone usage and certain usage". He believes that we will have definite use of this over the next 10 years.
Dr Khurana is urging people and governments to act quickly so that over the next 10 years we won't see an increase in malignant brain tumours which may not be susceptable to medical intervention. This scary prospect has had a lot of media coverage since the popularity of mobile phones but could it be that we are too dependant on our mobile phones to heed these warnings? The Mobile Operators association has dismissed the results saying that Dr Kahurana's study "Does not present a balanced analysis" as it is a "Selective discussion of scientific literature by one individual".
I guess the only thing to do is wait as only time will tell. Would it be such a bad thing though to be somewhat less dependant on our mobiles?
The link to this website is http://www.indipendant.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/mobile-phones-more-dangerous-than-smoking-802602.html
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That's a very intersesting article you have there!
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i find this very interesting. it amazes me that smoking can be less dangerous than mobile phones. its almost hard to believe.
ReplyDeleteAnd I thought I was OK not smoking!!! =o
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately I'm nomophobic so I can't give up my phone =p
Wow that is crazy.. Really cant belive that.. Madness!Its hard to believe that mobile phones are more dangerous than smoking! Very interesting post.. I liked it!
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