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My doctor once told me that he doesn't allow his young children to use cell phones. He said there have not been enough studies done on the affects of cell phones with developing brains. When my doctor says things like that it makes me wonder.

Ok,my two cents worth, remember all the huba,huba law making,warnings that came about from second hand smoke? How it was causing cancer in people....supposedly? I never got the name of one person who ever died from it,to this day...no one.

To you I ask,if cell phones are causing cancer to users,how long before there is second hand cell phone cancer,I am around cell phone users everyday! Who do I sue? You? The cell phone manufactuers? Do we need laws that don't allow people to use them in restaurants? Do we have non-cell phone or cell phone setting? Should we outlaw them around children,should you be over 18 to use them? How about we make a law like the one in California that won't allow you to smoke in your own home? Lets ban them in public shopping areas like malls.

Come on you activists,does this sound funny to you? or do you just cheery pick your issues that effect your life,are you really as concerned about "public health" as you say you are?

Is this post for real or am I just kidding?

I don't think you're serious about that... For example, you don't think that a waitress working in a diner for say, thirty years at forty hours a week, breathing smoke the entire time of her shifts may have cancer as a result of it?

All I ask is the name of the waitress that died from second hand smoke,that's all. I have never read one obituary that read,"died from second hand smoke" or one headline that said"waitress dies from second hand smoke working at diner"

What about second hand cell phone cancer? Do you think that is not real? What about the waitress that works 30 or 40 hours a week in a diner around people on cell phones?

I am dead serious about second hand cell phone cancer.These people can't be serious about second hand smoke can they?

I don't have the name of the waitress, but in Ontario there was a TV commercial with a terminally ill woman in it about second hand smoke. I don't think it was faked. As for the obituaries, if and when somebody dies from second hand smoke, it would most likely list the cause as cancer, if at all.

I don't think smoke affects everyone the same, but I believe that it does cause cancer in many people. I'm surprised to hear that disputed at this point it time.

As for cell phone cancer, I've heard suggestions about it but I have no idea what the facts are. Obviously we've been exposed to smoking decades longer than cell phones, so it's not surprising that we may have more to learn on the cell phone issue.

there are probably many issues we've not yet investigated enough... not just with cellphones but also things like power lines and stuff... it will take years of research before any conclusive evidence is found though.

I agree with that. I think that's what makes the cell phone issue a hot topic. By the way, did you see that video on YouTube that was a hoax, but supposedly showed a few cell phones popping popcorn?

After seeing that, a friend of mine without a land line phone would always put his cell on speaker phone when he called me.