Mobile Phones and Health
The rapid rise of mobile phone use over the last decade has given rise to growing concerns over the possible damage that mobile phones may be doing to the user. Governments and the World Health Organisation are researching what the potential hazards are for mobile phone users. Mobile phones use electromagnetic radiation that is in the microwave range. The research has yet to conclude what possible damage mobile phones may be causing us in the long term. Some studies have shown that there are no potential hazardous effects from short or medium term use of a mobile phone, while some experts argue that the microwaves will affect the tissue in the brain causing brain tumours.
Groups that would fall into the areas of concern are the habitual mobile phone users, people who never stop talking to other people on them. Also persons that live in close vicinity of the mobile phone masts or the engineers and workers in the mobile phone industry. The problem that governments and health officials have regarding the safety of mobile phone use is that no one can say exactly what the damage will be, because of the length of time that the effects of the radiation need to be studied. Time will only tell as to what the effects may be over the next decade.