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Article: Will we soon find that it's not so good to talk?; As the Government warns children against the danger of using mobile phones, Ross Reyburn gauges the level of opposition.
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- The Birmingham Post (England)
- Article date:
- May 12, 2000
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Mobile phones are banned on planes and in hospitals as they might distort instrument readings. But how many people think of the damage they can do held to your ear?
University of Warwick senior lecturer Dr Gerard Hyland believes that at the least a Government health warning should be issued with mobile phones. And he also argues mobile phone masts carry similar health threats.
'We are still in the early days of this technology but it is a crazy thing to do putting what is a microwave transmitter a few centimetres from your brain,' said the 57-year-old ...