Mobile phones are more harmful than smoking

Brain experts warn of huge rise in tumours and call on manufacturers to take immediate steps to reduce radiation. Mobile phones could kill more people than smoking. They say people should avoid using them wherever possible. The study, by Dr Vini Khurana, is the devastating indictment published of the health risks.

Using handsets for 10 years or more can double the risk of brain cancer.

Earlier this year, the French authority warned against the use of mobile phones, especially by children. Germany and the European Environment Agency also advise its people to minimize handset use.

Professor Khurana, a top neurosurgeon who has received 14 awards over the past 16 years, reviewed more than 100 studies on the effects of mobile phones. He admits that mobiles can save lives in emergencies, but is sure that “there is a significant and increasing body of evidence for a link between mobile phone usage and certain brain tumours”. He thinks this will be “definitively proven” in the next decade. He adds: “We are currently experiencing a reactively unchecked and dangerous situation.”

He fears that “unless the industry and governments take immediate and decisive steps”, the incidence of malignant brain tumours and associated death level will be observed to rise globally within a decade from now, Professor Khurana, who told that three billion people now use the phones worldwide, three times as many as smoke, says: “It is anticipated that this danger has far broader public health ramifications than asbestos and smoking.” Tobacco products kill some five million worldwide each year, and exposure to asbestos is responsible for as many deaths in Britain as road accidents.

The Mobile Operators Association dismissed Khurana’s study as “a selective discussion of scientific literature by one individual”. He “does not present a balanced analysis” of the published science, and “reaches opposite conclusions to the WHO and more than 30 other independent expert scientific reviews”.

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