| Until a few years ago, most of the studies on the | | | | in time result in serious health problems, including |
| dangers of cell phone electromagnetic emissions | | | | tumors, cancer, and early senility? |
| were concentrated on the possibility that the | | | | Along the way, cell phone manufacturers |
| devices may heat the brain or directly cause | | | | succeeded not only in increasing cell phone use to |
| cancer. And many of those studies were | | | | the current estimate of 1.5 to 2 billion worldwide |
| sponsored or financed either directly or indirectly | | | | cell phone users, but they also succeeded in |
| by the telecommunications industry. | | | | discouraging funding for research and influenced |
| Because such studies concluded that thermal | | | | protection agencies and government funded |
| (heating) effects were too minor to pose a | | | | institutes to ignore the dangers. |
| serious health risk, or no direct link could be made | | | | Now the situation is changing, mostly due to cell |
| to cancerous tumors, an impression was created | | | | phone users actually suffering the effects in |
| that cell phones were safe. | | | | ever-increasing numbers and their physicians |
| The telecommunication giants that manufacture | | | | reporting the effects. Courageous researchers |
| and market cell phones, build cell phone towers, | | | | and privately funded studies are recognizing the |
| and sell air time and communication services, | | | | statistical increases in serious health disorders |
| spent many millions of dollars on advertising, | | | | among cell phone users and reporting them. |
| publishing statements and manipulating the media | | | | New scientific studies are now pinpointing the |
| into repeating over and over that cell phones are | | | | relevant questions, and the real dangers of |
| safe and health concerns are foolish completely | | | | frequent and long-term cell phone use are |
| ignoring the fact that most of the studies | | | | becoming evident all over the world in countries |
| performed had not looked at the real questions: | | | | where cell phones are popular. |
| What is the long term effect on the human body | | | | Swedish Study Links Brain Damage to Cell Phone |
| from cell phone radiation? | | | | Radiation |
| What biological interference occurs from exposure | | | | A study financed by the Swedish Council for |
| to the non-thermal low intensity pulsed microwave | | | | Work Life Research and published by the US |
| radiation emitted by cell phones? | | | | government's National Institute of Environmental |
| Does the effect of electromagnetic radiation act | | | | Health Sciences breaks new ground by looking at |
| as a trigger, setting off malfunctions in the body's | | | | how low levels of microwaves cause proteins to |
| immune system, brain and nervous systems that | | | | leak across the blood-brain barrier (BBB). |