TRANSMISSION TOWERS “TRANSMIT” CANCER
IF you are within 200 meters of a typical mobile phone tower, it may be associated with an increased low risk of a range of cancers and miscarriage, and a higher risk of sleep disturbance and chronic fatigue which may lead to learning difficulties. The risk increases the closer you are to the tower.
In an Australian test (using TV towers) for the safety of mobile phone sites (better known as the hocking study), conducted and funded by Australian telecommunications giant Telstra, it was found that people living close to the towers had more leukemia than those living further away.
Because of their link to cancer, in the US alone, 85% of the total number of base stations (mobile phone towers) needed have yet to be constructed (Source: WHO, 1998)
CHILDREN AT GREATER RISK
CHILDREN are more vulnerable to radiation from mobile phones because of their developing nervous system, the greater absorption of energy in the tissues of the child’s head, and a longer lifetime of exposure. Studies have shown that children absorb microwaves at 3.3 times the rate of adults.
In fact, an American company has warned parents of “potential health risk” for children. Metrical introduced the warning in the US at the beginning of 2000.
SIMILAR TO MICROWAVE OVENS
MOBILE phones radiate microwaves similar to those used in a microwave oven to cook food.
Studies indicate that human beings are very good conductors of microwave transmitted signals. This means that most microwave signal radiate through us and are absorbed, with very little going to the main transmission point.
The transmitting frequencies of mobile phones are also in the band that has maximal penetration into the head. Between 20% and 80% of the energy is absorbed by the user’s head.
The percentage absorbed depends on the design of the phone, type of antenna (the stubby ones which you cannot extend are worse for pushing energy into the user’s head), and how far it is to the nearest base station.
It is estimated that when 80% of the transmitted power in a digital phone is absorbed by the user’s head, the brain cells are “hit” by these radiation pulses 217 times every second.
According to a Chinese study, half of a mobile phone’s radiation is absorbed by the human body and another quarter by the brain.
Results of tests from the UK National Physical Laboratory using a 7-material phantom human head showed that mobile phone users who wear glasses could be intensifying exposure to their eyes by up to 20% and into the dead by 6.3%. this was thought to be connected to the metal rims.
WARNING LABELS ON PHONE PACKAGES.
IN the US, all mobile phones are required by the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to meet radiation safety standards. All manufacturers are required to give their phones SAR levels to the Commission before they are approved for sale there.
In July 2000, mobile phones manufactures in the US caved in to consumer pressure and agreed for the first time to disclose radiation levels.
Finnish Nokia (the world’s largest mobile phone maker), US Motorola and Sweden’s Ericsson are also working to develop a standard for measuring the amount of cell phone radiation that is absorbed by human tissue.
Ericsson planned to start labeling its phone packages with SAR values by April 2001, while Motorola said it expected an agreement early 2001 and would start labeling its products as possible.
HOW YOUR MOBILE PHONE WORKS.
MOBILE phones, are in effect, tiny radio stations that send and receive. A low frequency pulse, carrying the information, travels on a high frequency microwave. As the pulse is digital (on/off) and “rhythmic”, it penetrates very powerfully with little energy input (the antennae on the transmission towers only have the approximate wattage of a light bulb, ie 50 Watts).
This is sometimes called the Jackhammer principle. By pulsing, a small and light jackhammer is able to break through the hardest rock.
It is the pulse action, that makes the mobile phone radiation considerably more dangerous to living systems (as well as technological systems, like air planes, heart pacemakers, hospital installations) than the far more powerful TV or radio signals, which are emitted with up to 100,000 Watts of power.
These emissions are not pulsed, however, and vary in frequency and modulation, thereby causing relatively less damage.
LAWSUITS
A US: A neurologist filed an US$800 mil (about RM3.040 mill) lawsuit against Motorola (the world’s No.2 cellular phone maker) as well as 8 other telecommunications companies and organization in July 2000, claiming his use of mobile phone caused a malignant brain tumor.
A SOUTH AFFRICA: In 1999, a Pretoria man sued 2 mobile phone companies because he developed a brain tumor. He also asked the court to order that all mobile phone suppliers issue warnings that their systems may be harmful to humans
A UK: In May 1998 a magistrates court here issued a summons under the UK Consumer Protection Act, 1987 for Welsh bio electromagnetic scientist Roger Coghill to bring a private criminal action against a retail distributor of Orange and Motorola mobile phones. Coghill’s action claims that the distributors failed to affix required labels to their handsets warning of possible health risks to users from prolonged conversations as required by the Act.
A SCANDINAVIA: Some people here were also reported to be suing mobile phone companies, because they became blind in the eye closest to their “phone ear”. People in Scandinavia have had the longest experience with such phones.
Note: The growing number of lawsuits against mobile phone companies has been predicated to be another tobacco-type health scandal, the limelight litigation of the 21st century.
In fact, as far back as 1994, the American Bar Association Journal had warned (in its cover story) that EMF litigation “could be the next asbestos”. It noted that more studies existed in the 90s linking EMF exposure to increased cancer risk, dwarfing the asbestos claims of the 80s when the latter first surfaced.]
Thursday, February 22, 2007
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
HOW UNSAFE IS YOUR MOBILE PHONE
ONE-FIFTH of Malaysia’s population – an estimated 4.5 million people – today walk, drive, shop, eat and work with a mobile phone pressed to their ears.
Even schoolchildren use mobile phones these days, and ads are encouraging young children to use this modern lifestyle device too. Beside China and Japan, Malaysia is currently one of the fastest growing mobile phone markets in Asia Pacific.
Industry sources estimate that advertising spending by the operators increased a hefty 70% to around RM75 million for the first 7 months of 2000, compared with about RM45 million for the same period in 1999.
But what is the cost to consumers? Exposure to a string of ailments! In spite of the mobile phone industry’s reassurances over the years that mobile phones are safe, and the argument that the device can help save lives in emergencies, the mobile phone may ironically shorten one’s life.
What many users don’t realize is that they are putting a potent transmitter which emits microwave radiation that affects every body system, against their heads day after day. Prolonged regular use has been linked to memory loss, Parkinson’s Disease, impaired immunity, kinder disease, birth defects, cancer and more in numerous studies.
The findings confirm the effects of very small energy sources on living things – that small amounts of energy when delivered in a targeted way can have the same effects as massive doses of chemicals.
Children are at greater risk as mobile phone radiation penetrates the skull and brains of children more deeply than adults.
More and more cellular sicknesses are continually being revealed in a growing body of scientific studies, which has renewed concern worldwide over the use of mobile phones.
In 1998, 17 of the world’s foremost independent scientists looking into the mobile phone health debate, signed a resolution (1998 Vienna Resolution) agreeing that health effects caused by low-level exposures to microwave radiation, particularly those emitted by mobile phones and their base transmitting stations, were scientifically established and undermined the validity of current safety guidelines.
Even the WHO is taking the matter seriously. Noting that there will be 1.6 billion mobile phone users worldwide by 2005, the WHO is currently planning a study in at least 10 countries to examine links to head and neck cancer.
Unfortunately, the public is being denied access to the truth about mobile phones. Some of the world’s radiation experts have openly reported that the industry tries to either cover up or manipulate the results of their research.
How much evidence on the harm of mobile phones must be shown before the industries admits to the risks?
Until mobile phones are proven to be safe, consumers should beware. CAP outlines some of the major health threats posed by mobile phones, uncovered in numerous studies around the world.
FRY THE BRAIN & SKIN
1 BRITIAN: Mobile phones can cook the brain and affect brain function. An English study, released last year, found that the levels of exposure arising from phones held near to the head or other parts of the body are substantially greater than whole-body exposures arising from mobile phone base stations.
1 SWEDEN: A major study found up to a 48-fold increase in the sensation of heat on the user’s ear, face or head
1 RUSSIA: Mobile phones can increase the temperature on the surface of the skin by up to 4.7oc. this heating damage could lead to skin cancer. (In the UK, a mobile phone user died after a cancerous skin growth appeared where he held his mobile phone.) Some scientists warn that this heating damages the skin, making the user look lined and haggard – and ultimately causes premature ageing! It is hypothesized that with heating, cells gradually don’t work properly, so the life process becomes less efficient.
HIGHER CANCER RISKS
1 SWEDEN: Mobile phone use increases the risk of a brain tumor by almost 21/2 times. Children, who have thinner skulls and smaller brains are at greater risk (see separate point).
1 AUSTRALIA: Mice exposed to pulsed digital mobile phone radiation over 18 months had twice the risk of developing cancers.
1 US: Frequent mobile phone users have significantly depressed melatonin – a vital cancer-preventing hormone.
1 AUSTRIA: Smokers who use mobiles run a far greater risk of developing cancer than non-smokers.
More alarming facts:
1 Digital phone users have been known to develop non-Hodgkin’s Disease in the lymph ands in their neck on the side where they normally used their phones for a couple of hours each day.
1 A few minutes’ exposure to mobile phone type radiation can transform a 5% active cancer into a 95% active cancer for the duration of the exposure, and for a short time afterwards.
1 The risk of rare neuron epithelial tumors on the outside of the brain is more than doubled – a statistically significant risk increase – in mobile phone users, compared to non-users.
1 In 1998, at least 8 lawsuits alleging that mobile phones cause brain tumors were filed in the US.
DNA & IMMUNE SYSTEM DAMAGE
Several studies have shown that mobile phone radiation can cause DNA damage in human cells. According to a UK scientist, weak radio frequency radiation similar to that emitted by mobile phone can also damage the body’s immune system that fights off infections and disease.
BIRTH DEFECTS
US: Radiation from mobile phones has been linked with possible dangers to pregnant women and their unborn babies. In a study, the radiation was found to cause defects in chicken embryos.
RAISED BLOOD PRESSURE
GERMANY: In a study reported in the Lancet in 1998, the blood pressure in human test subjects raised each time by 5-10 mm Hg – a level of increase that would be more than enough to trigger a stroke or heart attack in someone at sever risk. This was the first firm evidence that mobile phone radiation could directly alter cell function in the human body.
ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS & PARKINSON’S DISEASE
1 SWEDEN: Just 2 minutes of exposure to emissions from mobile phones can disable a safety barrier in the blood, causing proteins and toxins to leak into the brain. This can cause the chances of developing diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s. in another study, those who use the mobile phone for 30 minutes a day were twice as likely to complain of memory loss than those using it for less than 2 minutes.
1 US: A study found that learning and short-term memory in rats were impaired after 45 minutes exposure to electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones.
1 UK: A government-sponsored study implicated mobile phone radiation exposure with short-term memory loss as well as sudden confusion.
HEART DISEASE & KIDNEY STONES
EUROPE: New research indicates that exposures to mobile phones radiation causes red blood cells to leak hemoglobin (which carries oxygen around the body), the build-up of which can cause heart disease and kidney stones.
DECREASED SEX DRIVE, BURNING SENSATION & FATIGUE
1 UKRAINE: Using a mobile phone could also drastically reduce sex drive, according to animal studies. Rats exposed to mobile phone radiation were found to have far less testosterone in their bloodstream than unexposed rats. The higher the dose of radiation, the less testosterone was released by the body’s glands, resulting in diminished sexual activity.
1 SCANDINAVIA: Studies sponsored by the Scandinavian cellular industry and the Swedish and Norwegian governments confirmed a significant correlation between the length and number of phone calls made by users and the incidence of symptoms such as fatigues, burning sensations and headaches. Regular mobile phone users have also reported skin tingling or burning or twitching.
POISONS FROM YOUR FILLINGS
Studies have also found that mobile phone radiation can activate the mercury and release the poisonous gas. Experts believe the fumes attack the brain’s central nervous system causing conditions from depression and asthma to Alzheimer’s and Multiple sclerosis.
HEADACHES, DIZZINESS & CONCENTRATION LAPSES
SWEDEN: A cellular industry-sponsored Swedish study on 11.000 mobile phone users found that users making 4 or more calls a day were 3.6 times more likely to suffer headaches than those using it less than twice.
Users were also 2.3 times more likely to report dizziness and 2.4 times as likely to have concentration lapses.
Young people appeared to be most at risk with the under 30s 3-4 times more likely to experience side-effects.
WHAT IS MOBILE PHONE RADIATION
RUSSIAN occupational health scientists have known for more than 20 years that LOW-LEVEL MICROWAVE RADIATION (less than 0.1 MW/kg SAR*) can cause a strong heating effect in animals.
This can be simply demonstrated by slowly simmering a cup of water (in a glass) in a microwave oven. The water temperature can be seen to exceed the boiling point by several degrees Celsius without any observed boiling. [*SAR, or Specific Absorption Rate, measures the maximum quantity of radiation absorbed by a kilogram of tissue from a mobile phone. It is an internationally accepted standard for measuring radio frequency absorption by human tissue.]
(Note; Most mobile phones analyzed in tests overseas emit even higher levels of SAR than the above.)
There are 2 possible health risks from microwave radiation – thermal and non-thermal. Thermal effects occur when enough radiation, at certain frequencies, is absorbed to be converted to heat, increasing tissue temperature.
These effects can be measured in terms of SAR. A SAR of 4 Watts pre kilogram is associated with a 1oc temperature rise in human tissue.
Although officially, negative impacts on biological systems are measured by the degree of heat that is generated in the tissue by the radiation energy, over-whelming evidence suggest that there are severe non-thermal impacts of electromagnetic radiation which can’t be ignored. Non-thermal effects can occur at lower levels of exposure.
The electromagnetic radiation emitted by mobile phones is actually a form of non-ionizing radiation. Once believed to be harmless, studies have now shown that non-ionizing radiation may also present a danger to human health.
This discovery caused the public and the scientific community to alter their view of non-ionizing radiation and to shift attention to question concerning the hazards of EMFS (electromagnetic fields), especially from mobile phones.
MORE HEALTH THREATS
DANGEROUS TO HOSPITALS & AIRPORTS
MOBILE phones can play havoc with life-saving equipment in hospitals and clinics, and cause adverse effects on aircraft navigation systems, electronic systems in vehicles, speed control systems, computer networks and data storage.
For example, the mobile phone’s standby signal of 2 Hz can be confused with the heartbeat. This can make digital phones dangerous for those with pacemakers, which can mistake a phone-pulse for a heartbeat and fail to function.
EXPLOSION RISK IN PETROL STATIONS
IMPULSES from mobile phones could theoretically cause equipment at gas station to spark and ignite gas or gas fumes. Even mobile phone manufactures themselves (ex: Motorola) warn consumers in their owner manuals not to use their phones while at gasoline stations.
Investigation in Canada, where reports of fires associated with the use of mobile phones at gasoline pumps are known, show that turning the phone on or off, or even changing the phone’s batteries may cause a spark.
In Europe, Ex had begun putting warning labels regarding mobile phones in its stations in Europe since 1998.
DISTRACT DRIVERS
A TAIWAN Government initiated survey found that using mobile phones slows drivers response times, making them less able to react to emergency situations.
The 1-year survey, which include tests on 390 individuals in a laboratory environment, showed that it takes an additional 0.43 seconds (or about 100 meters) for motorist to step on the brakes when they’re dialing the phone, and an additional 0.27 seconds when they’re answering the phone.
The survey also discovered that motorists are at greatest risk when they answer the phone and when they hang up. This is because in both situations, the motorist tends to look downward, taking his or her attention from the roads.
ONE-FIFTH of Malaysia’s population – an estimated 4.5 million people – today walk, drive, shop, eat and work with a mobile phone pressed to their ears.
Even schoolchildren use mobile phones these days, and ads are encouraging young children to use this modern lifestyle device too. Beside China and Japan, Malaysia is currently one of the fastest growing mobile phone markets in Asia Pacific.
Industry sources estimate that advertising spending by the operators increased a hefty 70% to around RM75 million for the first 7 months of 2000, compared with about RM45 million for the same period in 1999.
But what is the cost to consumers? Exposure to a string of ailments! In spite of the mobile phone industry’s reassurances over the years that mobile phones are safe, and the argument that the device can help save lives in emergencies, the mobile phone may ironically shorten one’s life.
What many users don’t realize is that they are putting a potent transmitter which emits microwave radiation that affects every body system, against their heads day after day. Prolonged regular use has been linked to memory loss, Parkinson’s Disease, impaired immunity, kinder disease, birth defects, cancer and more in numerous studies.
The findings confirm the effects of very small energy sources on living things – that small amounts of energy when delivered in a targeted way can have the same effects as massive doses of chemicals.
Children are at greater risk as mobile phone radiation penetrates the skull and brains of children more deeply than adults.
More and more cellular sicknesses are continually being revealed in a growing body of scientific studies, which has renewed concern worldwide over the use of mobile phones.
In 1998, 17 of the world’s foremost independent scientists looking into the mobile phone health debate, signed a resolution (1998 Vienna Resolution) agreeing that health effects caused by low-level exposures to microwave radiation, particularly those emitted by mobile phones and their base transmitting stations, were scientifically established and undermined the validity of current safety guidelines.
Even the WHO is taking the matter seriously. Noting that there will be 1.6 billion mobile phone users worldwide by 2005, the WHO is currently planning a study in at least 10 countries to examine links to head and neck cancer.
Unfortunately, the public is being denied access to the truth about mobile phones. Some of the world’s radiation experts have openly reported that the industry tries to either cover up or manipulate the results of their research.
How much evidence on the harm of mobile phones must be shown before the industries admits to the risks?
Until mobile phones are proven to be safe, consumers should beware. CAP outlines some of the major health threats posed by mobile phones, uncovered in numerous studies around the world.
FRY THE BRAIN & SKIN
1 BRITIAN: Mobile phones can cook the brain and affect brain function. An English study, released last year, found that the levels of exposure arising from phones held near to the head or other parts of the body are substantially greater than whole-body exposures arising from mobile phone base stations.
1 SWEDEN: A major study found up to a 48-fold increase in the sensation of heat on the user’s ear, face or head
1 RUSSIA: Mobile phones can increase the temperature on the surface of the skin by up to 4.7oc. this heating damage could lead to skin cancer. (In the UK, a mobile phone user died after a cancerous skin growth appeared where he held his mobile phone.) Some scientists warn that this heating damages the skin, making the user look lined and haggard – and ultimately causes premature ageing! It is hypothesized that with heating, cells gradually don’t work properly, so the life process becomes less efficient.
HIGHER CANCER RISKS
1 SWEDEN: Mobile phone use increases the risk of a brain tumor by almost 21/2 times. Children, who have thinner skulls and smaller brains are at greater risk (see separate point).
1 AUSTRALIA: Mice exposed to pulsed digital mobile phone radiation over 18 months had twice the risk of developing cancers.
1 US: Frequent mobile phone users have significantly depressed melatonin – a vital cancer-preventing hormone.
1 AUSTRIA: Smokers who use mobiles run a far greater risk of developing cancer than non-smokers.
More alarming facts:
1 Digital phone users have been known to develop non-Hodgkin’s Disease in the lymph ands in their neck on the side where they normally used their phones for a couple of hours each day.
1 A few minutes’ exposure to mobile phone type radiation can transform a 5% active cancer into a 95% active cancer for the duration of the exposure, and for a short time afterwards.
1 The risk of rare neuron epithelial tumors on the outside of the brain is more than doubled – a statistically significant risk increase – in mobile phone users, compared to non-users.
1 In 1998, at least 8 lawsuits alleging that mobile phones cause brain tumors were filed in the US.
DNA & IMMUNE SYSTEM DAMAGE
Several studies have shown that mobile phone radiation can cause DNA damage in human cells. According to a UK scientist, weak radio frequency radiation similar to that emitted by mobile phone can also damage the body’s immune system that fights off infections and disease.
BIRTH DEFECTS
US: Radiation from mobile phones has been linked with possible dangers to pregnant women and their unborn babies. In a study, the radiation was found to cause defects in chicken embryos.
RAISED BLOOD PRESSURE
GERMANY: In a study reported in the Lancet in 1998, the blood pressure in human test subjects raised each time by 5-10 mm Hg – a level of increase that would be more than enough to trigger a stroke or heart attack in someone at sever risk. This was the first firm evidence that mobile phone radiation could directly alter cell function in the human body.
ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE, MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS & PARKINSON’S DISEASE
1 SWEDEN: Just 2 minutes of exposure to emissions from mobile phones can disable a safety barrier in the blood, causing proteins and toxins to leak into the brain. This can cause the chances of developing diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Multiple sclerosis and Parkinson’s. in another study, those who use the mobile phone for 30 minutes a day were twice as likely to complain of memory loss than those using it for less than 2 minutes.
1 US: A study found that learning and short-term memory in rats were impaired after 45 minutes exposure to electromagnetic radiation from mobile phones.
1 UK: A government-sponsored study implicated mobile phone radiation exposure with short-term memory loss as well as sudden confusion.
HEART DISEASE & KIDNEY STONES
EUROPE: New research indicates that exposures to mobile phones radiation causes red blood cells to leak hemoglobin (which carries oxygen around the body), the build-up of which can cause heart disease and kidney stones.
DECREASED SEX DRIVE, BURNING SENSATION & FATIGUE
1 UKRAINE: Using a mobile phone could also drastically reduce sex drive, according to animal studies. Rats exposed to mobile phone radiation were found to have far less testosterone in their bloodstream than unexposed rats. The higher the dose of radiation, the less testosterone was released by the body’s glands, resulting in diminished sexual activity.
1 SCANDINAVIA: Studies sponsored by the Scandinavian cellular industry and the Swedish and Norwegian governments confirmed a significant correlation between the length and number of phone calls made by users and the incidence of symptoms such as fatigues, burning sensations and headaches. Regular mobile phone users have also reported skin tingling or burning or twitching.
POISONS FROM YOUR FILLINGS
Studies have also found that mobile phone radiation can activate the mercury and release the poisonous gas. Experts believe the fumes attack the brain’s central nervous system causing conditions from depression and asthma to Alzheimer’s and Multiple sclerosis.
HEADACHES, DIZZINESS & CONCENTRATION LAPSES
SWEDEN: A cellular industry-sponsored Swedish study on 11.000 mobile phone users found that users making 4 or more calls a day were 3.6 times more likely to suffer headaches than those using it less than twice.
Users were also 2.3 times more likely to report dizziness and 2.4 times as likely to have concentration lapses.
Young people appeared to be most at risk with the under 30s 3-4 times more likely to experience side-effects.
WHAT IS MOBILE PHONE RADIATION
RUSSIAN occupational health scientists have known for more than 20 years that LOW-LEVEL MICROWAVE RADIATION (less than 0.1 MW/kg SAR*) can cause a strong heating effect in animals.
This can be simply demonstrated by slowly simmering a cup of water (in a glass) in a microwave oven. The water temperature can be seen to exceed the boiling point by several degrees Celsius without any observed boiling. [*SAR, or Specific Absorption Rate, measures the maximum quantity of radiation absorbed by a kilogram of tissue from a mobile phone. It is an internationally accepted standard for measuring radio frequency absorption by human tissue.]
(Note; Most mobile phones analyzed in tests overseas emit even higher levels of SAR than the above.)
There are 2 possible health risks from microwave radiation – thermal and non-thermal. Thermal effects occur when enough radiation, at certain frequencies, is absorbed to be converted to heat, increasing tissue temperature.
These effects can be measured in terms of SAR. A SAR of 4 Watts pre kilogram is associated with a 1oc temperature rise in human tissue.
Although officially, negative impacts on biological systems are measured by the degree of heat that is generated in the tissue by the radiation energy, over-whelming evidence suggest that there are severe non-thermal impacts of electromagnetic radiation which can’t be ignored. Non-thermal effects can occur at lower levels of exposure.
The electromagnetic radiation emitted by mobile phones is actually a form of non-ionizing radiation. Once believed to be harmless, studies have now shown that non-ionizing radiation may also present a danger to human health.
This discovery caused the public and the scientific community to alter their view of non-ionizing radiation and to shift attention to question concerning the hazards of EMFS (electromagnetic fields), especially from mobile phones.
MORE HEALTH THREATS
DANGEROUS TO HOSPITALS & AIRPORTS
MOBILE phones can play havoc with life-saving equipment in hospitals and clinics, and cause adverse effects on aircraft navigation systems, electronic systems in vehicles, speed control systems, computer networks and data storage.
For example, the mobile phone’s standby signal of 2 Hz can be confused with the heartbeat. This can make digital phones dangerous for those with pacemakers, which can mistake a phone-pulse for a heartbeat and fail to function.
EXPLOSION RISK IN PETROL STATIONS
IMPULSES from mobile phones could theoretically cause equipment at gas station to spark and ignite gas or gas fumes. Even mobile phone manufactures themselves (ex: Motorola) warn consumers in their owner manuals not to use their phones while at gasoline stations.
Investigation in Canada, where reports of fires associated with the use of mobile phones at gasoline pumps are known, show that turning the phone on or off, or even changing the phone’s batteries may cause a spark.
In Europe, Ex had begun putting warning labels regarding mobile phones in its stations in Europe since 1998.
DISTRACT DRIVERS
A TAIWAN Government initiated survey found that using mobile phones slows drivers response times, making them less able to react to emergency situations.
The 1-year survey, which include tests on 390 individuals in a laboratory environment, showed that it takes an additional 0.43 seconds (or about 100 meters) for motorist to step on the brakes when they’re dialing the phone, and an additional 0.27 seconds when they’re answering the phone.
The survey also discovered that motorists are at greatest risk when they answer the phone and when they hang up. This is because in both situations, the motorist tends to look downward, taking his or her attention from the roads.
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