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basic information is Copyright 8 March 2005 by Molly Wood and CNET. The reference for this article is author’s personal knowledge and experience working in Communications Field for more than 25 years plus all cited references in Molly’s article. This article may be freely copied and used on other web sites only if it is copied complete with all links and text, including this header, intact and unchanged except for minor improvements such as misspellings and typos. So you have a cell phone? But, you aren’t one of people who blithely goes cruising down highway and 10-15 miles over speed limit, talking on your cell and blissfully unaware of people around you and what they might be doing? Does it matter that you only use your cell phone “Safely”? Is there such a thing as “Safe use of Cell Phones?”
When you read following article by Molly Wood, copyright Molly Wood and CNET, March 8, 2005, you will come to understand some of hidden dangers inherent in our modern cell phone use.
And yes, this same problem is inherent in “cordless” phones we now use to have “walkabout” capabilities in our homes while we chat on phone. We can keep on preparing our meals, working in kitchen, working at odds ‘n ends around house and just carrying cordless phone with us. It broadcasts on RF frequencies in VHF and UHF ranges which are as harmful as Microwave frequencies on Cell Phone.
The danger lies in “being that physically close” to radiating source….i.e., right up against our ears.
At any rate, for an enlightening look at this potentially very serious health problem, make sure that you follow all links and read source material that went to validate article. Molly has done her homework on this one, and this article alone validates her being Senior Editor at Ziff-Davis’ CNET. Molly is editor of feature recurring article “Anchordesk”.
Read her article, follow links and read supporting information, and then make up your own mind as to safety or danger of Cell Phones. For my part, my mind is already made up….they’re inherently extremely dangerous. While you are checking sources out make certain you also check very last reference given – cell-phone radiation chart – it will be eye-opening.
The cell phone industry: Big Tobacco 2.0? By Molly Wood, senior editor, CNET.com Tuesday, March 8, 2005
So, there's this incredibly popular product that has widespread consumer use and a massive marketing presence. Nearly everyone uses it, and it has very high social acceptance, even though some people find it annoying when it's used in public. It's highly habit-forming; people who use product on a regular basis find it almost impossible to live without.
Unfortunately, studies start to appear showing that product might be harmful to its users--even cancer-causing. The product's manufacturers deny presence of any danger and even spend millions of dollars trying to discredit research that points to problems. Then, an insider emerges, seemingly with proof that product could be dangerous. The industry agrees to publish warning data about product, but continues to maintain that product itself is safe for use. Lawsuits against product's manufacturers are filed, but all are dismissed. Industry analysts know that any case that does succeed could start a domino effect of future lawsuits, which keeps industry determined to maintain that product is harmless, despite increasing evidence to contrary.
Sound familiar?
Well, put down your lighter, I'm talking about cell phones. I've already maintained that I don't like cell phone industry's iron-clad control over phone releases and pricing, its ever-lengthening contracts, and annoying habit it has of crippling Bluetooth phones so that I can't use them way I want to. But it takes only a few minutes of looking into cell phone radiation quagmire before I start to think, man, these guys have Big Tobacco 2.0 written all over them. Actually, I'm not first to think of it, but a recent article in University of Washington alumni magazine indicates that behaviors aren't going away, even as potentially damning research continues to mount.
OK, I know obvious differences: I'm sure cell phone manufacturers are not deliberately making their products more addictive, for example – although they are, of course, always offering new and improved services and ever-increasing buckets of minutes, which can't help but encourage us to use our phones more and more frequently. But, just as Big Tobacco did, cell phone industry seems bound and determined to thwart and deny any suggestion that its product might be dangerous.
