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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:14:38 GMT, will kemp
wrote:


Well, Im under pension age. Sorry, but mobiles have been around for
decades. OK only in large numbers (many millions) for two decades, but
in smaller numbers for far longer than that.

Portable radio transmitters of similar or higher power have been in
use for over 50 years, particularly by the military.

Despite all this experience, there have been no (not just a few:
none) authenticated instances of any harm done to anyone.

This is very unlike motor cars, electric blankets, cigarettes,
hamburgers, asprin, and many many more other products which are known
to be very damaging, but you seem not to be campaigning against.

Why the irrational concentration on something that has no known
effect, has no suspected reason to have effect, and has no history of
harm?

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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 20:14:38 GMT, will kemp
wrote:


It occurs to me that around ten years ago I was a probation officer,
working in an inner city area, and I had quite a few drug dealers on
my books.

Some of them did have mobile phones, some of them stolen and cloned.
One or two built mobile phone businesses on that beginning! But even
among my probation clients, there were more mobile users who were not
drug dealers than who were.

I think that you have been taken in by uninformed speculation on this
aspect of mobile phones as much as the health risk aspect.


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On Fri, 29 Oct 2004 23:21:10 +0100, hairydog wrote:


im not campaigning against mobiles. i use them myself and ive got no
problem with them - although i dont like the way my head heats up and i
feel like a clamp is tightening across my temples after ive been talking
on one for a long time! but i try and avoid doing that!

ive worked around very high powered transmitters and i dont think
mobiles are massively significant in terms of the general level of rf
radiation all of us live with constantly.

however, while there has, of course, been two way radio use for many
decades (i drove taxis and worked on ships long before i had a mobile!),
theres never been such a massively widespread use of transmitters at the
particular frequencies mobiles use and with the antenna so close to your
head.

quite likely there will be no effects at all on anyone, but it seems
possible that, given the vast numbers of people involved, a small minority
could experience some adverse effects. maybe, maybe not.

i started using mobiles in my forties, so if there are any effects im
less likely to experience them before i die (from something else,
hopefully! ;-) ) than people who started using them when they were 9!

will