[ RadSafe ] Maine --- cancer and cell phones

John R Johnson idias at interchange.ubc.ca
Wed Dec 23 11:01:37 CST 2009 

Ed

Did the EPA say that carbon dioxide EXPOSURE was hazardous? I thought they 
said that its effect on the environment was hazardous.

John

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Edmond Baratta" <edmond0033 at comcast.net>
To: "parthasarathy k s" <ksparth at yahoo.co.uk>; "Steven Dapra" 
<sjd at swcp.com>; <radsafe at radlab.nl>
Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 11:43 PM
Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Maine --- cancer and cell phones


> Life is harmful.
>
> Ed Baratta
>
> Remember that EPA says Carbon dioxide is Hazardous to your health!!
> What's next?? Oxygen??
>
> --------------------------------------------------
> 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
>>
>> Bio initiative working group believes that nonionizing radiation is 
>> harmful. You can read their report at
>>
>> http://www.bioinitiative.org/report/index.htm
>>
>> regards
>> Parthasarathy
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>> 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
>>
>> Dec. 22
>>
>>    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?
>>
>> Steven Dapra
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>> Maine to consider cell phone cancer warning
>>
>> By GLENN ADAMS, Associated Press Writer Dec 21, 2009.
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091221/ap_on_he_me/us_cell_phone_warnings
>>
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