Are cell phones more dangerous than smoking?

For the last 40 years everyone has been told of the dangers of smoking. Today, cell phone research stands where smoking research stood then. Recent news has stated that cell and cordless phones can lead to brain tumors. Dr. Vini Gautam Khurana, a Mayo Clinic-trained neurosurgeon with an advanced neurosurgery Fellowship in cerebral vascular and tumour microsurgery from the Barrow Neurological Institute in Phoenix, Arizona, published a critical review stating that “malignant brain tumour incidence and its associated death rate will

be observed globally to rise within” the next 10 years due to cell phone use. Dr. Khurana believes that children are at the greatest risk due to brain tissue that is still developing. Still today, with the dangers we know about smoking, hundreds of thousands of people die yearly from smoking related ailments. Dr. George Carlo, Ph.D, M.S., J.D, is a public health scientist, epidemiologist, lawyer, and the founder of the Science and Public Policy Institute, believes that by 2015, “one out of every four people will suffer from some symptom of illness from cell phone use.” Starting today, we need to limit the use of cell phones, especially among children, and eliminate non-essential calls.