[ RadSafe ] Maine --- cancer and cell phones

Wed Dec 23 01:43:27 CST 2009

Life is harmful.

Ed Baratta

Remember that EPA says Carbon dioxide is Hazardous to your health!!
What's next?? Oxygen??

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From: "parthasarathy k s" <ksparth at yahoo.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 9:46 PM
To: "Steven Dapra" <sjd at swcp.com>; <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Maine --- cancer and cell phones

> Steven Dapra
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> Bio initiative working group believes that nonionizing radiation is 
> harmful. You can read their report at
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> http://www.bioinitiative.org/report/index.htm
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> regards
> Parthasarathy
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> From: Steven Dapra <sjd at swcp.com>
> To: radsafe at radlab.nl
> Sent: Wed, 23 December, 2009 7:10:22
> Subject: [ RadSafe ] Maine --- cancer and cell phones
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> Dec. 22
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>    This article has been on Yahoo news for a day or two.  Does anyone here 
> know anything about Herberman, Morgan, or the Biolnitiative Working Group?
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> Steven Dapra
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> Maine to consider cell phone cancer warning
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> By GLENN ADAMS, Associated Press Writer Dec 21, 2009.
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> AUGUSTA, Maine – A Maine legislator wants to make the state the first to 
> require cell phones to carry warnings that they can cause brain cancer, 
> although there is no consensus among scientists that they do and industry 
> leaders dispute the claim.
> The now-ubiquitous devices carry such warnings in some countries, though 
> no U.S. states require them, according to the National Conference of State 
> Legislators. A similar effort is afoot in San Francisco, where Mayor Gavin 
> Newsom wants his city to be the nation's first to require the warnings.
> Maine Rep. Andrea Boland, D-Sanford, said numerous studies point to the 
> cancer risk, and she has persuaded legislative leaders to allow her 
> proposal to come up for discussion during the 2010 session that begins in 
> January, a session usually reserved for emergency and governors' bills.
> Boland herself uses a cell phone, but with a speaker to keep the phone 
> away from her head. She also leaves the phone off unless she's expecting a 
> call. At issue is radiation emitted by all cell phones.
> Under Boland's bill, manufacturers would have to put labels on phones and 
> packaging warning of the potential for brain cancer associated with 
> electromagnetic radiation. The warnings would recommend that users, 
> especially children and pregnant women, keep the devices away from their 
> head and body.
> The Federal Communications Commission, which maintains that all cell 
> phones sold in the U.S. are safe, has set a standard for the "specific 
> absorption rate" of radiofrequency energy, but it doesn't require handset 
> makers to divulge radiation levels.
> The San Francisco proposal would require the display of the absorption 
> rate level next to each phone in print at least as big as the price. 
> Boland's bill is not specific about absorption rate levels, but would 
> require a permanent, nonremovable advisory of risk in black type, except 
> for the word "warning," which would be large and in red letters. It would 
> also include a color graphic of a child's brain next to the warning.
> While there's little agreement about the health hazards, Boland said 
> Maine's roughly 950,000 cell phone users among its 1.3 million residents 
> "do not know what the risks are."
> All told, more than 270 million people subscribed to cellular telephone 
> service last year in the United States, an increase from 110 million in 
> 2000, according to CTIA-The Wireless Association. The industry group 
> contends the devices are safe.
> "With respect to the matter of health effects associated with wireless 
> base stations and the use of wireless devices, CTIA and the wireless 
> industry have always been guided by science, and the views of impartial 
> health organizations. The peer-reviewed scientific evidence has 
> overwhelmingly indicated that wireless devices do not pose a public health 
> risk," said CTIA's John Walls.
> James Keller of Lewiston, whose cell phone serves as his only phone, 
> seemed skeptical about warning labels. He said many things may cause 
> cancer but lack scientific evidence to support that belief. Besides, he 
> said, people can't live without cell phones.
> "It seems a little silly to me, but it's not going to hurt anyone to have 
> a warning on there. If they're really concerned about it, go ahead and put 
> a warning on it," he said outside a sporting good store in Topsham. "It 
> wouldn't deter me from buying a phone."
> While there's been no long-term studies on cell phones and cancer, some 
> scientists suggest erring on the side of caution.
> Last year, Dr. Ronald B. Herberman, director emeritus of the University of 
> Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, sent a memo to about 3,000 faculty and staff 
> members warning of risks based on early, unpublished data. He said that 
> children should use the phones only for emergencies because their brains 
> were still developing and that adults should keep the phone away from the 
> head and use a speakerphone or a wireless headset.
> Herberman, who says scientific conclusions often take too long, is one of 
> numerous doctors and researchers who have endorsed an August report by 
> retired electronics engineer L. Lloyd Morgan. The report highlights a 
> study that found significantly increased risk of brain tumors from 10 or 
> more years of cell phone or cordless phone use.
> Also, the BioInitiative Working Group, an international group of 
> scientists, notes that many countries have issued warnings and that the 
> European Parliament has passed a resolution calling for governmental 
> action to address concerns over health risks from mobile phone use.
> But the National Cancer Institute said studies thus far have turned up 
> mixed and inconsistent results, noting that cell phones did not come into 
> widespread use in the United States until the 1990s.
> "Although research has not consistently demonstrated a link between 
> cellular telephone use and cancer, scientists still caution that further 
> surveillance is needed before conclusions can be drawn," according to the 
> Cancer Institute's Web site.
> Motorola Inc., one of the nation's major wireless phone makers, says on 
> its Web site that all of its products comply with international safety 
> guidelines for radiofrequency energy exposure.
> A Motorola official referred questions to CTIA.
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> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091221/ap_on_he_me/us_cell_phone_warnings
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