Introduction
Many technologies today have made life so much easier to the point that it is hard to live without them. Cell phones could safely be included in this category. Cell phones are the smaller and wireless version of the regular phones, which people can take anywhere they want. When people look at cell phones, they see a technological breakthrough, a fashion statement, or even a "what would my life be without this amazing device?" They are truly revolutionary devices because cell phones allow people to communicate whenever and wherever. Young and old, a lot of people seem to have cell phones these days. The number of cell phone users in 2005 was estimated to be 2,168,433,600 according to the CIA World Factbook. That is almost one third of the world's population. With this many users of the cell phone, one would think that these people are aware of all the good and bad effects of the device. This is not true.
A large number of the cell phone users are not aware that cell phones have the ability to potentially cause brain damage. However, the use of cell phones causing brain damage such as cancer or tumors is not a completely proven fact. For this reason, there has been a lot of debate about cell phones having any negative health problems for the users. This controversy began in mid-1992 in a U.S. court, when David Reynard sued Motorola Inc. The case was opened because of the fatal brain cancer Reynard's wife had developed after using the cell phone, from which she later died. From that point on, there have been many studies done on the correlation between cell phone usage and risk of getting brain cancer. While one group thinks that cell phones cause brain cancer, there is another side that believes cell phones have no connection with brain cancer due to the lack of hard factual evidence. Many newspapers, magazines, scholarly articles have been published about the cell phone controversy. The five popular press sources, which will be... [continues]
Many technologies today have made life so much easier to the point that it is hard to live without them. Cell phones could safely be included in this category. Cell phones are the smaller and wireless version of the regular phones, which people can take anywhere they want. When people look at cell phones, they see a technological breakthrough, a fashion statement, or even a "what would my life be without this amazing device?" They are truly revolutionary devices because cell phones allow people to communicate whenever and wherever. Young and old, a lot of people seem to have cell phones these days. The number of cell phone users in 2005 was estimated to be 2,168,433,600 according to the CIA World Factbook. That is almost one third of the world's population. With this many users of the cell phone, one would think that these people are aware of all the good and bad effects of the device. This is not true.
A large number of the cell phone users are not aware that cell phones have the ability to potentially cause brain damage. However, the use of cell phones causing brain damage such as cancer or tumors is not a completely proven fact. For this reason, there has been a lot of debate about cell phones having any negative health problems for the users. This controversy began in mid-1992 in a U.S. court, when David Reynard sued Motorola Inc. The case was opened because of the fatal brain cancer Reynard's wife had developed after using the cell phone, from which she later died. From that point on, there have been many studies done on the correlation between cell phone usage and risk of getting brain cancer. While one group thinks that cell phones cause brain cancer, there is another side that believes cell phones have no connection with brain cancer due to the lack of hard factual evidence. Many newspapers, magazines, scholarly articles have been published about the cell phone controversy. The five popular press sources, which will be... [continues]
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