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By Adam Fendelman, About.com Guide to Cell Phones

Do Cell Phones Cause Cancer? Helpful List of Cell Phone Dos, Don’ts

Wednesday September 10, 2008
While we shouldn’t expect a definitive answer any time soon to the divisive question of whether cell phones cause cancer, we can be taking smart actions today either way.

Barton Publishing on Sept. 7, 2008 published a helpful list of cell phone dos and don’ts related to the topic. Here are their five tips:
  1. Use the speakerphone option. It keeps the phone away from your head. You want at least a few inches of distance. [This] dramatically drops radiation exposure. A foot or more is better.

  2. Don’t wear your phone on a belt clip or keep it in your pocket. If the mobile emits radiation, it still emits whether held up to your ear or hip.

  3. Consider getting a Bluetooth wireless earpiece. Manufacturers claim the radiation from the Bluetooth technology is 100 to 200 times less intense than a typical cell phone held to the ear.

  4. Find out about ferrite beads. This is an inexpensive clip you put on the wire of a headset. The wire itself is suspected of emitting radiation and the ferrite absorbs and neutralizes the radiation.

  5. Reintroduce yourself to landline [telephones].
Update on Sept. 9, 2009: The non-profit Environmental Working Group has released a spectacularly helpful and consumer-friendly guide that lists radiation levels for 1,000 cell phones and smartphones.

Comments

September 15, 2008 at 3:11 pm
(1) nc says:

I don’t see how any of the first few options is of any help. If I’m out, walking around, I can use the speakerphone or a wireless earpiece but the phone is still going to be somewhere on my person. So the only two that really help are 4 and 5. And 5 not so much if I’m not at home.

September 15, 2008 at 3:42 pm
(2) MB says:

a gal can carry phone in her purse – What is a guy to do? – He doesn’t carry a purse.

RETHINK
What is the latest research on radiation emision from cell phones?

September 16, 2008 at 10:55 am
(3) pat says:

The producers own human race possible solution to cellphone radiation effect. They should work hard to invent an inbuilt radiation absorber phone for the masses or else be held responsible for the negetive effect on man.

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