Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking'

The Independent by Geoffrey Lean | Mar. 31, 2008 (News Report)

Mobile phones could kill far more people than smoking or asbestos, a study by an award-winning cancer expert has concluded. He says people should avoid using them wherever possible and that governments and the mobile phone industry must take "immediate steps" to reduce exposure to their radiation. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Melva Hackney - Mar 31, 2008 - 3:53 PM PDT
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 by Melva Hackney - Oct. 1, 2008
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 by Rachel Chimits - Oct. 1, 2008

This was a fairly interesting story. The one problem I had with it was that it never said how cell phones are causing cancer, only that excessive cell phone use is 'linked' to brain cancer. This leaves me a little skeptical as to how this researcher knows that cell phones cause brain cancer.

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