Article: Cellphones use greater threat than smoking

Sanchita Sharma

Hindustan Times

NEW DELHI, India, April 1 -- A top Australian neurosurgeon of Indian origin says cell phones use is a greater threat to human health than smoking, which kills 5.4 million people each year. Dr Vini Khurana, a neurosurgeon at the Canberra Hospital, told UK's Independent newspaper that there is growing evidence that using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer.

This, however, does not mean that smoking is better for health than using cellphones. Dr Khurana says the cellphone threat is greater because far more people use cellphones than smoke worldwide, some of them starting use at the age of 3 years.

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