If you have a cell phone today, you probably remember a couple years ago when they really took off in popularity, the big controversy over whether they can cause health problems. Legal departments of cellphone manufacturers slip a warning about holding the phone against your head or body into the fine print. The United States has over 292 million cell phones using 2.26 trillion minutes annually. While people seemed to have forgotten about the potential health risks the industry has not. As cell phones become more widely used among younger crowds the chance of major health risks increases. Brain cancer has been one of the more major concerns, and while average rates of brain cancer have not changed, there has been a change in certain trends, mostly an increase in 20-29 years and a decrease in older cases. Some scientists attribute this to the increase in cell phone use for younger generations, because children are more susceptible to radiation from cell phones than adults. A rise in cell phone related health issues would mean bad news for an industry that has embedded itself into our everyday lifestyle. We cannot dismiss the potential risks of cell phones simply because everybody else is using one.
Do you think that this is something that could cause a serious issue in the future? or are cell phones so instrumental in our everyday lives that we might as well take the bad with the good? What are your thoughts?
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/business/14digi.html?adxnnl=1&ref=general&src=me&adxnnlx=1289798234-AMvkSFaWwyIErg94oA7DZA
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