What is your opinion about the affirmation that mobile phones can cause brain tumor?
435912
My opinion is that everything causes cancer now days.  It seems as if there is nothing healthy out there.  I am going to continue to use my cell phone, smoke cancer sticks, and drink cancer causing sugar substitues in my tea.   I mean really, what can we do.
412243
I wouldn't say that it causes cancer, specifically, but it doesn't exactly promote good health, either. Psychosomatic illness is no joke, and an unsound mental outlook can potentially weaken the body, which could lead to an increased susceptibility to disease.
737346
Talking on cellphone while driving is dangerous because the concentration of the driver is diminished resulting to a possible accident.  It is not a violation of a right but a valid exercise of the police power of the state to prevent accidents.
1092036
It is not certain that any risks to human health actually exist. Concerns exist because the antennas of these phones deliver much of their RF energy to very small volumes of the user's body \n\n----\nOn the other hand, if you use a cell phone without a head set while driving there is considerable danger of getting involved in an accident.
741694
I have read of research that shows that using a phone while driving is equally as dangerous as a .05 blood alcohol reading. Those phone users really annoy me .
99177
The images on your screen are caused by magnetic fields.  Apparently your cellphone is sending out similar fields.
708542
A bit drastic. But given that a lot of cell phone owners are incapable of simple courtesies like switching the ringtones off in lectures or other events and not answering their phone if they are in the middle of a conversation with somebody else,  it makes sense as an educational measure. \nNow people can start learning talking to each other directly instead of talking through a cell phone. People survived for a surprisingly long time without cellphones, if cell phones would all break down tomorrow it wouldn't be the end of the world.
589157
Most all of us have had trauma to the head at one time or another.  Since we are made to be healthy, thankfully, there are no serious consequences.  For some, the trauma is more drastic.  Even so, we recover and carry on.  I had a brain tumor.  That is traumatic.  But I took it in stride and there are no recognizable consequences whatsoever.
52899
For exemple when u put your cell phone between ur legs, \nwhenever the cell phone rings it transmit electromagnetic fields into ur genitals, they can damage the dna chains inside ur reproductive cells (spermatozoid)
283512
when computers / mobile phones were discovered they were supposed to be our boon but with the passage of time we have disovered the various medical problems associated with it. again DDT (pestiside) was once commanly used but it went with the fruits / vegitables to our stomoch and creates vareious disorders
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Cell phones and pagers, part of the technological revolution that was supposed to liberate everyone, is tethering people to their jobs to an unprecedented degree, to the point where family life is suffering.\nThe research, by University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee sociologist Noelle Chesley, appears in the December issue of the Journal of Marriage and Family.\n\n\n"The use of cell phones and pagers was linked to increased distress and a decrease in family satisfaction over time," said Chesley, an assistant professor of sociology. "There is clearly a link between using the technology and experiencing increased access."\n\n\nFor the study, Chesley interviewed working couples over two time periods -- from 1998 to 1999 and again from 2000 to 2001. She found that between the interview periods, the use of cell phones and pagers decreased family satisfaction and increased distress and negative work-to-family and family-to-work spillover.\n\n\n"These technologies are linked to negative experiences and feelings from the workplace spilling over into the home," Chesley said. "We are becoming more accessible, which is letting in more of the bad than the good."\n\n\n"Women get kind of a double whammy," she added. "For women, in addition to having a lot of this stuff from work spill over into home life, they get the opposite. There is also a lot of negative stuff from home spilling over into the workplace."\n\n\nChesley thinks that better management of cell phone use is needed to reduce the stress effect she uncovered. Perhaps employers and employees should set limits on reaching each other to allow time for more positive family interaction, she suggested.\n\n\n"The question is, are these technologies helping us or hurting us in our daily life," Chesley asked. "The results of this study indicate that technology may not be so great."\n\n\nOne expert thinks the findings support the idea that cell phones are changing culture -- and not necessarily for the better.\n\n\n"These findings seem to support my intuitions about how cell phones affect our daily lives -- blurring boundaries between work and family life because of increased accessibility," said Tate Kubose, a cognitive scientist at the University of Illinois Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology.\n\n\n"They also support the notion that we should really appreciate our women more, as they seem to shoulder a lot of the burden, even in marriages where both spouses work," he added.
1158573
No, this is a myth. A large part of our brain is used as proved by MRI's.
1041249
I'm suprised that she apologized. I have gotten my head bitten off by these cellhogs. I think it is ridiculous that someone spends hours and hours just mindlessly yapping. I am not sure if they think they are that important or just want everyone else to think that they are. I think cellphones should be automatically deactivated when you walk into a store, restaurant, movie.  Is anything really THAT important and if it is, maybe they should be at home taking care of it and not wandering aimlessly forcing others to be unwillingly participants in their drama.
235866
cancer is caused by any kind of chemical.gasoline can cause cancer.
851543
It is nauseating some times.  People are rude on their phone, they talk too loud, they talk while driving which is extremely dangerous, they talk for too long, they leave the ringer on while at the movie theater, they leave their Bluetooth hanging on their ear which looks RIDICULOUS AND PATHETIC.  By the way, it increases the risk of brain cancer.  Totally unacceptable social behaviour.  Then you have kids with cell phones, people taking unsolicited pictures of others which is an invasion of privacy.  It just drives me nuts!
103841
Heavy usage of cellphone by a highschool student can cause the following: \n(1) low proficiency in spelling (most oftn omitting the vowels from the words) since most cellphone users shorten the words to save space. \n(2) focus on studies is diverted - e.g. addiction to games installed in the cellphone unit. \n(3) diminished etiquette -  There is a sense of urgency to respond to texts/calls regardless of one's situation, be it during holy mass, meetings, family gatherings, classes, movie houses, and so on\n(4) safety risks - Cellphone users text/call while walking, driving, amd crossing the pedestrian.  \n(5) materialism - To be considered cool and popular in one's circle of friends, there is a tendency to want and demand for latest cellphone models
255732
Absolutely not true. The amount of time people spend on the phone is more related to naturally occurring behavioral conditioning. That is, the more you do it the better you become at it. While there are stereotypically different communication styles between men and women (aka what Men are from Mars ... tries to describe), these stereotypes don't really hold up well when explored scientifically.