There has been numerous questions asked about the safety of mobile phone and so far no one has given conclusive proof that it is dangerous. What I do know, is that if there are dangers, it should not be used by the young simply because the skull is thinner than in adults and microwaves can reach the developing brain.

Below is an email sent to me. I am sure it is controversial and it is certainly food for thought.

Interesting article in today’s Daily Telegraph – page 30 of the main section. The most important part is “Evidence is increasing that radiation from handsets presents a cancer hazard, particularly to children and to those who use their phones for more than a decade. On Monday, some of the data will be presented at a US Senate hearing. Later this month, a long-awaited 13-nation study should be published.  The official European environment Agency (EEA) is sounding a discreet alarm. And the French government is so concerned that it is developing measures to ban the devices from primary schools, stop their promotion to children under 12, and prevent them being sold without a headset to heavily reduce radiation exposure.”

It goes on to say that earlier studies were flawed, because at that time people had not been using mobile phones for long enough for problems to reveal themselves, but that more recent studies in Sweden have shown that long-term users are twice as likely to get incurable brain cancer on the side of the head where the phone is held, and people who started to use mobile phones before the age of 20 were much more likely to contract the cancers.

Apparently there are nearly two mobile phones per person in the UK! One possible outcome is that phones may have to prominently display the radiation level of each phone – apparently they vary wildly.

Hope this post will not cause you chest pain stress.