Is it good to talk now? (Mobile phone safety)

Member Name: mo79

Product:	Mobile phone safety
Date:	15/11/00 (18 review reads)
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Advantages: We've been made slightly aware of possible health risk

Disadvantages: Until we get hard evidence there's just a bit of exaggerated panic over all of this

People who yap too much on their mobiles are effing annoying show-offs aren't they? Not so far as to wish them death by a horrible disease, but I wish they'd shut up sometimes (and they'd save their bills too). Also I don't think mobile phones are fancy or chic or outstanding these days as everyone has one, and talking into a piece of plastic or via a hands free kit schizophrenically isn't that fashionable really is it? I don't like whipping out mine much in public either for fear of getting done over in All Saints Road (yes, that All Saints Road).
Mobile phones are both useful communications devices and possible head and machine bombs which is a bit of a catch 22 really. I've got a pay-as-you go mobile which I use mostly to send text messages or for ringing or recieving calls when I'm out or the main phone's in use and I must be contacted. I'm not a heavy user, and I'm not a big talker (seriously, even though my written words are long), so I'm not too worried, or maybe I should be?
With the pay-as-you go explosion, everyone's got a mobile, especially since that product's boom buy last Xmas (more this year, eh?) - even little primary school kids have them. Is this a bomb plantation on every human who has one, and every machine that's in the viscinity of one?
We all know that mobiles in environments such as hospitals or airports are a big no no as they can interfere with the machinery, and now we know that aswell as unliving matter, it can also affect us too, but we're not sure of the latter entirely.
We all know that microwaves and radiation are bad for us, but how bad? I've had a mobile for a good year and a half and I feel pretty much fine. I'm a bit mad, but I always have been.
Basically, the results that mobile phones can have an adverse effect on us are a bit miniscule. Okay, it's happened to some people, but not everbody with a mobile device has suddenly become ill.
Or maybe it's down to how long people use them, the type of phone, the area, maybe even what type of network their on etc., but still with all these groups, there still isn't a significant sample to say that the phones are bad for us. I'm sure the experimentalists have looked into this, and when they can deliver a report with statistically significant data, then I'll start worrying, but until then I'm gonna still use my mobile and hope I'll be okay.
It's not like cigarette warnings 'where smoking can cause heart disease etc.', as we have a statistical significance that it can do that, with mobiles we don't, and even if they do does it affect us all? It probably might not that be simple to figure out with mobiles, but hey on average we're safe, so let's just be a bit wary but not worry too much to dump our lovely mobile conveniences - just yet anyway. More tests please mobile-boycotter-for-safety folk!

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