Re: [Phys-L] old news that remains news - cancer and cellphones

["LaMontagne, Bob" <RLAMONT@providence.edu>]

This is just a wild uninformed guess, but I would bet that more people have been killed by other drivers using cellphones while driving than by "passive" radiation.

Bob at PC
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From: Phys-l <phys-l-bounces@www.phys-l.org> on behalf of Bill Norwood <bnorwood111@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, June 6, 2016 8:06 PM
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Subject: Re: [Phys-L] old news that remains news - cancer and cellphones

Bernard
- A link between smoking and lung cancer was found in the 1920's, and
continued to be found over the decades, yet the industry had  a hugely
profitable run with US sales for 70 years after that.
- The 1998 settlement:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Master_Settlement_Agreement#Adoption_of_the_.22Master_Settlement_Agreement.22
- They still make a lot of money, but more of it now is sales to other
countries which are not yet organized enough to litigate.
- Then there was/is passive smoking, where it is harder to prove that an
individual's cancer came from other persons' tobacco smoke, but
particulates in the air were measured with a piezo-balance and that was
sufficient to statistically prove a lung cancer incidence due to passive
smoking.
- So, if cell phone damage is subtler than first-hand smoking is, then
there may arise a method of measuring that.
- You guessed it, "passive cellphoning." The signals taken in by the
cellphone are many orders of magnitude weaker than the signals emitted, so
if one is close to a cellphone user he or she might be endangered for all
we know, at this time.
- If putting the brakes on a huge money maker took that long with a product
conspicuously deadly, how long do you think it will/would take with cell
phones etc.?
Bill Norwood

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