"Cell Phones Will Kill More People Than Smoking or Asbestos"

That scary quote came directly from renowned neurosurgeon, Vini Khuarna.

He recently reviewed over 100 studies on cell phones and found some scary statistics for our cell phone happy culture.

Now I know what you might be thinking, "I have heard studies from the cell phone companies saying there is nothing to worry about."

And that's true. By their studies standards, there is nothing to worry about. The problem is, all their studies were measuring the short-term effects of cell phone use.

A typical brain tumor takes 10 years to develop. So a short-term study will never show a positive result.

So how do these tumors develop and who is most at risk?

There are still some questions on how they develop but the fact is this. Cell phones are sending signals off satelittes to radio towers to our phones and back. They carry with them electro-magnetic radition. A known cancer causing agent.

Oh yeah, and did I mention that handsets (ie. Bluetooth's) turn your head into an antenna and increase the signal therefore increasing the risk of a brain tumore?

I think that might be interesting to know for those Bluetooth junkies reading this.

With cell phones getting popular in the late 80's, early 90's. We are just now seeing the long-term effects. They expect by 2010, we will begin to have hard data on just how more prevelant brain tumors have become.

In the long-run, check out things like the RF Raider on how to reduce your cell phone radiation and limit use of handsets. http://rfraider.com/

In the short-run, use speaker phone as much as possible and keep the phone at least 6 inches away from your head.

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