Dangers of Mobile Phones

Mobile phones are potentially one of the most dangerous devices on the market today, and yet even children use them. Many consumers are not aware that a significant number of mobile phones explode during use:

Curtis Sathre said it was like a bomb going off. His 13-year-old son Michael stood stunned, his ears ringing, hand gushing blood and body covered in black ash. In a split secondàfragments from MichaelÆs exploding cell phone had hit him between the eyes and lodged in the ceiling of the familyÆs homeà (CBS News, 2004).

Specialists say that explosions can occur due to defective batteries or overheating, but using the wrong type of batteries or charger can also precipitate an explosion. Dropping a fully charged phone or using it in severely cold temperatures is equally dangerous (CBS News, 2004).

As if exploding mobile phones werenÆt enough, the radiation emanating from mobile phones can cause pacemakers to malfunction. That radiation also penetrates deeply into the brain of the user, causing chromosomal damage and possibly cancer. The radiation dose from mobile phone use inside an automobile is alarmingly high. According to David Morehouse:

Placing a cell phone call in your car is like sitting inside of a microwave o

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foot, either. Pedestrian phone users are becoming so distracted while talking and walking that they wander into traffic and get killed (Howard, 2004). Safety issues aside, mobile phones wreak havoc in peoplesÆ personal lives also. They are intrusive, to say the least. The phones ring during church services, business meetings, family dinners, and even weddings. Intrusiveness has become such a problem that cell phones are being banned from many restaurants and other public establishments. In New York City, the Metro-North Railroad found that 76% of commuters carry the phones, and 90% of those admit to using them. Metro-North finally designated a phone-free ôQuiet Carö on each train to respond to a survey that indicated that 87% of surveyed commuters are ôbotheredö by the phones (ôRail Commuters Still Bothered by Cell-Phone Abuse,ö 2000). It is not just the fact that phones ring anywhere that is the problem. More importantly, people actually answer those callsùregardless of what they happen to be doing. According to Ad Age, 14% of the worldÆs mobile phone users admit that they ôhave stopped in the middle of a sex act to answer a ringing wireless deviceà The highest incidence of cellular interruptus was found in Germany and S
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