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Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking'
Brain expert warns of huge rise in tumours and calls on industry to take immediate steps to reduce radiation

By Geoffrey Lean
Sunday, 30 March 2008


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.


The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the most devastating indictment yet published of the health risks.

It draws on growing evidence – exclusively reported in the IoS in October – that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer. Cancers take at least a decade to develop, invalidating official safety assurances based on earlier studies which included few, if any, people who had used the phones for that long.

Earlier this year, the French government warned against the use of mobile phones, especially by children. Germany also advises its people to minimise handset use, and the European Environment Agency has called for exposures to be reduced.

Professor Khurana – a top neurosurgeon who has received 14 awards over the past 16 years, has published more than three dozen scientific papers – reviewed more than 100 studies on the effects of mobile phones. He has put the results on a brain surgery website, and a paper based on the research is currently being peer-reviewed for publication in a scientific journal.

He admits that mobiles can save lives in emergencies, but concludes that "there is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumours". He believes this will be "definitively proven" in the next decade.

Noting that malignant brain tumours represent "a life-ending diagnosis", he adds: "We are currently experiencing a reactively unchecked and dangerous situation." He fears that "unless the industry and governments take immediate and decisive steps", the incidence of malignant brain tumours and associated death rate will be observed to rise globally within a decade from now, by which time it may be far too late to intervene medically.

"It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking," says Professor Khurana, who told the IoS his assessment is partly based on the fact that three billion people now use the phones worldwide, three times as many as smoke. Smoking kills some five million worldwide each year, and exposure to asbestos is responsible for as many deaths in Britain as road accidents.

Late last week, the Mobile Operators Association dismissed Khurana's study as "a selective discussion of scientific literature by one individual". It believes he "does not present a balanced analysis" of the published science, and "reaches opposite conclusions to the WHO and more than 30 other independent expert scientific reviews".

DAMN IT!! You beat me to it, Winston LOL

Doing some surfing on this, check it out:
Quit smoking using your cell phone

What are they trying to do? Kill Us?

Someone posted this on a Toledo board where many rabid smoker-haters lurk and are members. Close to 50 viewings now, and only ONE comment-mine. Gee, wonder why that is?

Dammit. I like all the attention smokers get. Cell phones don't kill people. Cigarettes do.

I don't see a doubling of brain cancer risk overtaking smoking deaths. I just looked up brain cancer deaths and primary (originating in the brain) brain cancer deaths in the US is 13,000 (vs 400,000 from smoking).

Not only that, but "The number of cell-phone users in the United States currently tops 196 million, according to the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association" and that was 2 1/2 years ago. It could only be higher now. So even if cell phone deaths would top 400,000 that's spread over a far larger group of people. In other words, not as deadly.

Besides, last time someone tried to steal our limelight by suggesting more fat people die than smokers, anti-tobacco rushed to protect their paychecks, I mean rushed to our defense as the most likely to die population on earth.

We're #1......And always will be.

Hmmmnnnn..... local news, and then network news....just had a big leadin last night about the newest 'study' showing that most 'smoker addiction' is genetic, and so is the potential for lung cancer. This sounded familiar to me, and for good reason-it came out around Christmas, and is merely the old trick of rehashing old news. MY GUESS: The Nazi cartel wanted to make sure the cell phone story got quickly wiped out. Any takers on that bet?

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Originally posted by dave clark:
Hmmmnnnn..... local news, and then network news....just had a big leadin last night about the newest 'study' showing that most 'smoker addiction' is genetic, and so is the potential for lung cancer. This sounded familiar to me, and for good reason-it came out around Christmas, and is merely the old trick of rehashing old news. MY GUESS: The Nazi cartel wanted to make sure the cell phone story got quickly wiped out. Any takers on that bet?

Was it the same researchers?

Some of this certainly isn't new. I found as far back as 1990 in less than 5 minutes in a google search, and that includes cutting and pasting.

September 09, 2005
Lung Cancer Has a Strong Genetic Link
Individuals with a mother, sister or other "first-degree" relative with lung cancer are at increased risk of developing the disease, regardless of whether they smoke.

New Breakthrough - Lung Cancer Susceptibility Region found ! (Sept. 2004)
In the September 2004 issue of American Journal of Human Genetics (AJHG,75(3):460-474,2004) researchers...have discovered an inherited genetic region on the human chromosome number 6 that is linked with lung and other tobacco related cancers. This discovery is the first major step in finding the underlying biological malfunctions for the most fatal form of cancer.

Genetic Link Indicated In Lung Cancer Study
Published: August 3, 1990
LEAD: A study of 337 Louisiana families suggests that there is a genetic component to lung cancer, researchers say.
A study of 337 Louisiana families suggests that there is a genetic component to lung cancer, researchers say.

"Mobile phones 'more dangerous than smoking'"
yes, everytime when i answer mobile phone more than 30 minutes, my ear will feel not well.
and others tell me that using the left ear will be better than right