No word on why people are trying to smoke cell phones, but be that as it may, a leading cancer specialist has compiled data over a ten year period that implicate cell phone use as an idex for probable brain cancer: prolific cell phone use appears to double the risk.
Cell providers pan the study, and with some justification: over the period of time in question, phones have grown smaller, use and emit less energy, and have become more versatile in the process. Using a cell phone today is as likely to involve sending a text message or taking a snapshot as it is to be used in a traditional phone handset manner.
Bottom line: no reliable data exist, because the field has been undergoing rapid change. The data from users of the brick-like phones of a decade ago cannot be reliably incorporated into the continuum of progressively smaller, less power-hungry and lower-emitting phones that have proliferated over the past five years.
We have no basis from which to conclude, firmly, that cell-phone use promotes tissue damage, and no data exist to show that use is completely benign.
Available data from other sources indicate that the study may be needlessly alarmist:
We've been flooded with increasing electromagnetic transimissions across an expanding set of wavelengths for over half a century, and during this time, the average lifespan for humans has increased. At the same time, humans not subjected to as much electromagnetic radiation, as in places such as Rwanda, have been slaughtered by the hundreds of thousands by dedicated Muslims - The Religion of Peace™ .
I'm thinking maybe we ought to consider giving those dedicated Muslims a few megawatts of electomagnetic radiation. It might do them - and the rest of the world - some good.
