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The Health of Humans and Cell Phones

Life is always about getting into the new trends and its like if your not in then your simply not cool and that is most certainly true weather it would be at school or at a office and always wanting to fit in is second nature to just about everyone but how much are you willing to sacrifice I mean lets go off topic really fast and look at how people are willing to do anything to be skinny also what they are willing to is steal lie to have something that others have, a main one is cell phones now going back to that topic. Cell phones are win lose situation because its use to connect to others while your on the run and also use for safety and style. On the other side has it become monsters to people? People are killing people for the latest cell phone because I’m so up to date with my cell phone I almost got robbed for my cell phone I mean this simple thing has lost the value of being safe anymore but above all is cell phones dangerous to our health?

Today’s cell phone can do just about everything except your laundry, and someone somewhere is certainly working on that. But where did these things come from? They’re as ubiquitous as tattoos. Suddenly everyone has one. Does anyone find it curious that before the mass marketing of cell phones began in 1984 there was no testing done to determine if there are any potential risks to humans when they hold a radio frequency-emitting device up to their heads for long periods of time? At first it was just a toy for the wealthy, so who cared about the health implications, but within 10 years, prices on the phones and service plans had dropped to the point where by 1993 15 million cell phones were in use in the United States. Today there are an estimated 208 million in use domestically and close to 2 billion worldwide. Globally, there are still new markets to conquer. Domestically, the cell phone industry has been swooping down like vultures on the “teenager market,” 8- to 12-year-olds. In 2000, an estimated five percent of teenagers owned cell phones.

By 2004 that jumped to about a third of kids 11 to 17, resulting in about $2 billion in carrier revenues, or about a quarter of the market. Analysts expect half of the 11 to 17 group to be armed with cell phones by 2007. A guy who did a really big interview for a New Zealand and news show also spread through out other lands in May, said there are currently 30,000 to 50,000 new cases of brain and eye cancer attributable to cell phone use being diagnosed every year. Studies on epidemiological, that number will reach half a million cases by 2010”, two different research projects were done and found genetic damage in human blood caused by cell phone emissions. Another project found an increased risk of cell phone users suffering from acoustic neuroma, a rare non-cancerous tumor that affects hearing. Another found a breakdown in the blood brain barrier in the brains of rats exposed to radio waves. Four others found evidence of an increased risk of brain tumors among cell phone users. Another found an increased risk of lymphoma with prolonged radio wave exposure.

In 10/23/06 there just might be a connection between a suspected decline in male fertility and increased cell phone use, but experts say much more research is needed to confirm an association. In a study led by researchers from The Cleveland Clinic, men who used their cell phones the most had poorer sperm quality than those who used them the least. The lowest average sperm counts seemed to be in men who had the most cell phone use more than four hours a day, those who didn’t use cell phones seemed to have the highest. Although the sperm count appears to go down with increasing cell phone use, the difference in numbers wasn't significant.

I found this very interesting “ Social disease “I threaten to throw them out of the window,” Dr. Gerard Gryzb, a sociology professor at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh, said about chirping cell phones in his classroom. “They really interrupt my flow, and I assume everybody else’s as well. In a sense, somebody answering a phone is the triumph of the individual over the social if that ring disrupts a social event.” Gryzb has long had an interest in technology and its effect on society, particularly American society. “There is this sort of residual, if you’re going to be a modern person how can you possibly speak out against any new technology. There’s that strong element in our culture,” he said. “Just about all technologies that we’ve seen recently, the questions that come up for sociologists, does it build stronger connections, stronger societies, stronger groups within them, or does it tend to individualize?” he said. “Way back in the ’60s, social thinker Phillip Slater said we get up every morning to see what technology has brought us. More often than not, it slaps us in the face, but we’re going to ask what it is anyway. It just doesn’t matter. We’ll take whatever it is. We don’t end up having any real control over it. We don’t have much in the way of social discussion over whether this stuff is good for us or not.” We may find cell phones and other technology leading us to what he described as “a Balkanization of people.” “Kids, I guess, really use them that way, maintaining tight little groups of people. You begin to be less and less willing to tolerate the intrusion of anything that is not part of your group,” he said. “Somebody put it this way, ‘Cell phones enabled the creation of virtual walled communities.’ No technologies really have automatic outcomes, predetermined social impacts, but that’s certainly a possibility, that people are using the technology to further wall themselves off from divergent points of view, and in the process becoming less tolerant.” While cell phone marketing would have the opposite seem true, Grzyb said there is definitely an anti-social element to cell phone usage. “Another analyst has said, what does it suggest about the connection of people to whatever it is they are a part of, a class,” he said. “It suggests that their connection is so tenuous that if a device makes a noise, they’ll leave the group. Now think about that. It’s really strange. The thing goes off and you are so connected to this group that you leave it in a second, and, not only that, you’ll go further. You’ll annoy the group. “It’s saying, I’ve got something personal here. I’ve got a personal message that has come in for personal me and whatever we were doing here as a group is secondary. I’m picking up this phone. Or if I’m out in a group of people, they don’t exist. There’s just me and this phone and whatever’s on the other end of it.” “

So this just shows how our society is being brain washed, I know its possible to live with out my cell. But it has become a part of my life and yea just like anything else you can live to live without it but also knowing that theses things can happen to anyone an how much it affects men just a little bit more an its very simple how to fix this but the question is can we really want to it’s a money making its enjoyment its safety its danger its very much a part of life like I said an everyday the cell industry is trying to find ways to make sure just about everyone has a cell phone.