Your phone's a tumour risk

Your phone's a tumour risk
The link between mobile phones and brain tumours should "no longer be regarded as a myth" after research suggests high cellphone use could double the risk of brain cancer. The review, headed by Australian-based neurosurgeon Vini Khurana, uses more than 100 sources in recent medical and scientific literature. It claims to highlight an emerging global public health concern - with broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking. Dr Khurana says in a research paper published on the website brain-surgery.us that using cellphone handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer and is more dangerous than smoking. "Malignant brain tumours may take several years to develop, and the incidence of malignant brain tumours is increasing."

I honestly believe that people in 25 years from now will view us all with the same level of contempt we view people who believed that smoking was healthy for them, decades from now generations will ask us, “How the hell did you think putting a cell phone against your brain wouldn’t result in brain tumors?”, and we will flap around like our previous generation did and wail that we were all told that they were safe. I love how tobacco companies have managed to warp their drug pushing into an issue of ‘personal choice’ – how the hell can an addict have anything remotely approaching ‘choice’ has never been explained, but by warping their addiction into an issue of ‘freedom’, tobacco companies have avoided much of the damage they create, I wonder if cell phone companies will move in the same direction – tumours = freedom, obviously the PR department will need to work on it.