Can you really develop brain cancer from using your cell phone? Well, if that is true, then I know a lot of people who need to change their way of communicating. I have several friends who have done away with their land lines phones in favor of the cell phone. Those same friends use their cell phones FAR more than they would have been using land line phones. They walk into the workplace on their cell phone, they leave their cell phones turned on at their desks and use them constantly, including every lunch break, on the way to and from their cars, in their cars, at the lunch table, and the same routine back to the office. The cell phone is stuck right to their ear in the grocery store, at the doctor’s office, at the bank — you name the place, they are using it. I find it not only annoying, but rude.

I have a cell phone which I use basically for emergency situations or in last minute communication with my daughters as I am on the way to their houses, each a thirty minute drive away. I rarely leave it turned on unless I am on a longer distance drive. Quite frankly, I really don’t want to be bothered until I reach home again. Once home again, I can spend two hours at a time on the phone — land line phone — and not think anything of it.

Cell phones have really only been in use by the common public for a little over a decade so there has been limited opportunity to research the long-term effects on their usage. The tests so far have been inconclusive, but the link between cell phone use and brain cancer is still being researched.

Cell phones operate with radio frequency energy (RF), a form of energy emitted, the strength of which is somewhere between FM radio waves and the waves used in radar or satellite stations. Apparently the risk comes from the exposure to RF depending on the duration and frequency of cell phone use.

Cordless phones, more commonly used in the home, are plugged into a telephone jack which is wired to a local telephone service (a land line phone). They are not considered cell phones and the health risk associated with their usage has not been a concern. Cell phones use five or six hundred times the amount of power of a cordless phone.

If you are a cell phone junky or even if you have a reasonable concern about the risks involved, you might want to check out one of the following websites:
Federal Communications Commission
RF Safety Program, Office of Engineering and Technology
Web site:

www.fcc.gov/oet/rfsafety/

Food and Drug Administration
Cell Phone Facts: Consumer Information on Wireless Phones
Web site:

www.fda.gov/cellphones/

World Health Organization
International Commission on Non-Ionizing Radiation Protection (select Qs & As)
Web site:

www.who.int/emf
NO MATTER WHAT THE CONCERN IS, KNOWLEDGE IS ALWAYS YOUR BEST DEFENSE. So check it all out for yourself, but meanwhile…get off the phone and drive!!

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