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Yes! No! Yes! – Are cell phones dangerous?or not? One expert says they could kill far more people than either asbestos or smoking. There is evidence that using them for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain tumors. This type of cancer takes at least 10 years to develop, which is why the proof has been slow in coming.

In the March 30 edition of the Independent, Geoffrey Lean quotes cancer expert Vini Khurana as saying, “There is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumors.” He believes this will be “definitively proven” in the next decade.

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Just when we thought that cell phones were (almost) OK, another danger has been revealed.

Heavy cell phone use may be linked to an increased risk of cancer of the salivary gland, which is the disease that movie reviewer Roger Ebert has. A study of 500 people in Israel who developed that kind of cancer, where cell phones are used much more than in other parts of the world, shows that they all talked on cell phones for several hours a day.

BBC News quotes Israeli researcher Siegal Sadetzki as saying, “Compared to other studies, the amount of exposure to radio frequency radiation we saw here was much higher. If you like, you’re seeing what could happen elsewhere ‘speeded-up’ in Israel.”

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For years, there have been contradictory reports about whether or not cell phones cause brain tumors. The good news is that a new study shows that they definitely DO NOT–but they may cause another kind of problem, depending on where you carry them.

A new study from Japan, where they use cell phones A LOT, that proves that cell phones do not increase the risk of brain tumors. Tokyo Women’s Medical University compared over 300 brain cancer patients with almost 700 healthy people, asking them how many years they?d been using a cell phone and how long they talked on it every day. They also studied the radiation emitted from different types of phones.
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Even talking on a hands-free phone while driving is dangerously distracting, because scientists say our brains are not capable of paying attention to more than one thing at a time. So why is it safe to listen to the radio?and not just music, but traffic advisories?while driving?

We can listen to a car radio and drive while keeping an eye on changing traffic conditions. These are separate complex tasks that we can do at the same time without much trouble. But if two people are talking to us at the same time, our perceptual frequencies get jammed.
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