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The idea that Smartphones are potentially harming our health is too much for some people
BY MICHAEL THOMAS
Research has shown that there is a connection between radiation caused by cell phones, and brain tumors as well. This information has been made public by Hunter Lundy, a personal injury attorney who is now involved in a lawsuit against the cell phone industry.
Lundy and Robert F. Kennedy Jr, head up this legal team that is representing the family of the late Reverend Frank Aaron Walker who died on December 31st, 2020, at age 49, from a glioblastoma brain tumor, or what Lundy referred to as a “cell phone tumor.”
This lawsuit names some of the world’s cell phone giants like: Motorola, AT&T, ZTE Corporation, Cricket Communications, and the Telecommunications Industry Association as defendants.
As far back as 2007-2009 a case-controlled study in the “National Library of Medicine” revealed that there was a connection between brain tumors and mobile/cordless phone use. The study also finds, “When used these phones emit radiofrequency electromagnetic fields (RF-EMFs) and the brain is the main target organ for the handheld phone.”
The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as far back as May 2011 classified RF-EMF as a group 2B, i.e. a ‘possible’ human carcinogen. The main objective of this study was to explore the relationship between especially long-term use of wireless phones and the development of malignant brain tumors.
As more and more people get more attached to their phones, another study on Taiwanese women has revealed a connection between women, breast cancer, and the smartphone.
The participants in this study were asked to respond to standard questionnaires to collect information on sleep quality, smartphone addiction, and smartphone use. “Those with smartphone addiction had a significantly higher 1.43-fold risk of breast cancer.”
A closer distance between the smartphone and the breasts when using the smartphone exhibited a significantly increased 1.59-fold risk. Participants who carried their smartphone near their chest or waist-abdomen area had significantly increased 5.03-fold and 4.06-fold risks of breast cancer, the study showed.
There was a synergistic effect between smartphone addiction and smartphone use of 4.5 minutes before bedtime, which increased the breast cancer risk, overall, too much smartphone use greatly increased the risk of breast cancer, particularly for participants with smartphone addiction, a close distance between the breasts and smartphone, and the habit of using a smartphone just before retiring for bed.
Lundy in conversation with Kennedy revealed, “There are studies that show that men who put their cell phones in their pockets have low sperm counts.
We know today that there are studies on women showing that women who use jogging bras with pockets to put their phones in were showing tumors on the exact place where the phones were resting.
Until they step up to the plate and admit it, everybody should be held accountable,” he said, “Why should they get a break when they know the truth and there are consequences to their wrongful conduct.”
Joel Moskowitz a researcher in The School of Public Health at Berkeley has tried for a long time to sound the alarm that cell phones are bad for people’s health, but was ignored.
“People are addicted to their smartphones,” said Moskowitz. “We use them for everything now, and, in many ways, we need them to function in our daily lives. I think the idea that they’re potentially harming our health is too much for some people.”
Finally, according to Pew Research, 97% of Americans own cell phones, and most recently, on March 1st, 2021, a report was released by the former director of the National Center for Environmental Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which concluded that there is a “high probability” that radiofrequency radiation emitted by cell phones causes gliomas and acoustic neuromas, two types of brain tumors.
Sources
Hardell L, Carlberg M, Söderqvist F, Mild KH. Case-control study of the association between malignant brain tumors diagnosed between 2007 and 2009 and mobile and cordless phone use. Int J Oncol. 2013 Dec;43(6):1833-45. doi: 10.3892/ijo.2013.2111. Epub 2013 Sep 24. PMID: 24064953; PMCID: PMC3834325.
Shih, Ya-Wen et al. “The Association Between Smartphone Use and Breast Cancer Risk Among Taiwanese Women: A Case-Control Study.” Cancer management and research vol. 12 10799-10807. 29 Oct. 2020, doi:10.2147/CMAR.S267415