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The World Health Organization back in 2011: WHO: Cell phone use can increase possible cancer risk http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/31/who.cell.phones/index.ht
by miles 8y ago
The World Health Organization back in 2011:
WHO: Cell phone use can increase possible cancer risk http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/31/who.cell.phones/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2011/HEALTH/05/31/who.cell.phones/index.h...
> Radiation from cell phones can possibly cause cancer, according to the World Health Organization. The agency now lists mobile phone use in the same "carcinogenic hazard" category as lead, engine exhaust and chloroform.
- saulrh 8y agoClassified in IARC 2B, which also includes things like pickled vegetables, magnets, coffee, sassafras, styrene, and ginkgo extract. Also aflatoxin M1 (LD50 ~300 ug/kg), vanadium(V) oxide (LD50 ~10 mg/kg inhaled), HIV, and nitrogen mustards (chemotherapy drugs that also happen to be classified and stockpiled as chemical weapons). Even the items that CNN picked out, the cancer risk from those is the least of your worries. I won't call the 2B category "useless", since it actually is a list of compounds that might theoretically (but have not been shown to) cause cancer, but, well...