Essays

Millions of people own a mobile phone these days, and ever since they have been around scientists have questioned

whether they are safe or not. Do they cause tumours, earaches, mercury poisoning?

The problem is that mobile phones are still too new to know the long-term effects on human. Mobile phones give off a radiation of radio frequency round 10 MHz to 300 Ghz. But so do other appliances. Why does mobiles especially get pictured as being hazardous?

Drivers who use these mobiles whilst driving are the only 'health risk' that can be proven, the drivers get distracted and lose control over the vehicle. Mobiles are said to cause brain tumours, they say this because there mobile phone users were found to have tumours of the same kind. Mobiles cause memory loss, radiation sickness. Mobiles can disturb your sleep pattern, according to the researchers from worldwide universities.

Mobile phones increase brain activity during our sleep. A really strange result of the use of mobile phones is that mobile phones can release the poisonous mercury from fillings causing brain damage, scientist say the electrical fields given off by mobile phones can activate the mercury, giving off a gas. The fumes attack the nervous system causing conditions from depression, asthma to Alzheimer's disease and multiple sclerosis.

Some studies have suggested links between Radio frequency radiation and lymphoma, microwaves and memory loss, a rare type of brain cancer, DNA destruction, and damaged scalp nerves. The World Health Organization has asked for more and more research. Scientists admit that they cannot rule out an effect. This may satisfy the public, until a counter report is published.

It seems one can't enjoy technology any more without its painful side effects, suffering a slow death. All these risks are known to affect the youth more. Even scarier is the thought that those companies may not be telling us the whole truth. If mobile phones are questioned now, when will it be stopped? Will microwaves, electric blankets, or televisions be next?

In the mean time, experts have made reports to reduce the amount of radiation. They have recommended to cut down on time spent using the mobile phone, Use a mobile phone where the antenna is mounted outside a car and Keep mobile at a short distance from the ear.

If no immediate link is put between all the risks and the real effect of mobile phones on humans, then there will be no problem in buying mobiles. The problem is that without knowing the real risk manufactures cannot develop safer mobiles, so many people are exposed to harmful radiation without knowing. There is no proof that mobile phones are a health risk, or that they are hundred percent safe.