• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    Emits so much radiation that it will give you brain cancer.

    I actually knew a traveling salesman in the 90s who used one of these. He was on it literally all day every day because his company was paying for it. He was in industrial sales for a mining company and they really didn’t care how much any of it cost. So he would make his business calls as well as personal calls just for anything with anyone. He used to brag all the time that he was on a long distance call and talk for an hour.

    In about 2005 he was diagnosed with cancer and they found a brain tumor on the right side of his head … the same side he held the phone all the time.

    The only thing they could determine was his phone use … and the fact that he most likely overused the thing.

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      Mobile phone radiation is non-ionising. There is no known mechanism for it giving you cancer. Regardless of mechanism there’s ample research on the topic, and no sign of a link

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      Hey now it may not have been the radiation, could’ve been some of the phones materials leaching into his skin and causing cancer. I used to work estate sales and I once found one of these phones in the back of a closet thing (it was about 6 inches wide) which had somehow liquifide, it looked like it was melting down over time. I have never seen a piece of plastic do that so I have no clue what the fuck caused that but I would not be surprised if the reason I have never seen that is cause the plastic caused cancer and was broadly banned.

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      …that is the same theory behind Ted Kennedy’s tumor, once he was able to use the phone all the time(cellular phone) he never stopped using it