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April 28 • 2011

Protect Yourself
• Always use a hands-free headset
or the speakerphone setting when
talking on your cell phone. Some
researchers say a wired headset,
especially a "hollow tube" headset
you can special order — which will
be labeled as such and
uses hollow tubes rather
than wires to conduct
sound — is the best. But
even a Bluetooth wire-
less headset will reduce
your radio-frequency
radiation exposure.
• Keep the phone off
your body. Carry your
phone in a purse or bag
with the antenna (back
of the phone) pointed
away from you, not in
your pocket or bra. When you're
talking on it (with a headset or on
speakerphone), put it on a table in
front of you. Just a few inches can
substantially reduce your radiation
exposure.
• Text instead of talking. Holding
your cell phone away from your
head to send text messages exposes
you to less radiation than talking on
it without a headset.
Of course, do not
text while driving!
• Turn it off.
Phones only emit
radio-frequency
radiation when
they're searching for
or receiving a signal,
so a phone that's
off or in "airplane
mode" is safe.
• Replace cordless
phones with corded
models. Cordless
phones can emit
as much radiation as cell phones;
and the charging station constantly
emits radiation.
• Use a low-radiation cell phone.
Search FCC.gov/cgb/sar to find out
the radiation level of your model or
consult the Environmental Working
Group's online database: EWG.org/
cellphones. But no matter how low
the radiation level of your phone is,
it's still important to hold the phone
away from your head and body
whenever possible.
• Wireless modems emit radiation
as well. Banish modems from your

After 10 years of
use, cell-phone
users have a
10-30 percent
higher risk for
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new campaign has been
launched to raise aware-
ness about the dangers of
cell phone radiation exposure. Led
by epidemiologist Dr. Devra Davis,
the campaign seeks to prevent the
incredible damage of cumulative
radiation on children.
Children are more
affected by radiation to
the head because they
have thinner skulls and
more water content in
their brains (which effects
conduction). According to
Davis, "Every case-control
study that's ever looked at
people who've used a cell
phone heavily for 10 years
or more finds a doubled
risk of brain tumors. Every
study that's large enough to find an
effect finds one."
A 2009 report of 11 studies, pub-
lished in Surgical Neurology, found
that using a cell phone for 10 years
or more "approximately doubles
the risk of being diagnosed with a
brain tumor on the same side of the
head as that preferred for cell phone
use A 2009 analysis of 23 studies,
published in the
Journal of Clinical
Oncology, found
that people who
used cell phones
for 10 years or
more had a 10-30
percent higher
chance of develop-
ing cancer than
those who rarely
or never used cell
phones.
Thanks to stud-
ies like these, Israel
has legally man-
dated that cell phone manufacturers
display the radiation level on every
cell phone for sale in the country.
The French government has made it
illegal to market cell phones to chil-
dren, and it has banned cell phones
in public schools. The governments
of Finland, Switzerland, Germany,
the United Kingdom, Canada and
Russia have also issued warnings
advising cell phone users, especially
children, to use headsets to mini-
mize exposure to radio-frequency
radiation. The U.S. government has
not issued any warnings to date.

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