Law Requiring Listing Of Cell Phone Radiation Levels Passes (in San Francisco)

[Ed Barrow]

Source: KTVU

San Francisco became the first city in the nation to restrict cell phone sales Tuesday after the city’s board of supervisors approved a new law that requires stores to provide details on phone radiation.

Overcoming strong lobbying efforts from cell phone companies, the city’s board of supervisors approved the new law 10-1, which will go into effect February 2011.

Attendees of the momentous vote included the wife of Lafayette real estate broker Alan Marks, who suffers from a brain tumor that his doctors attribute to over 10,000 hours of cell phone use.

“What it really means is we are standing up to an industry that is not telling the truth,” said Ellie Marks, who led the audience in applause after the vote.

Read more: http://www.ktvu.com/news/23913688/detail.html

[musette_sf]

1. K&R

and I note that with an iPhone, those cool, wired, headset/headphones come with it. I like using those.

[earcandle]

2. Yea, I heard the salt that makes a cell phone work is suppose to be toxic and dangerous.

I don't use it often, but I worry about those I love who do. 

[madrchsod]

3. everyone in my family texts but me

i really don`t care because i`m old, rarely answer cause do`t give a shit who calls me, and i type to slow to text.

[DGG]

4. Information good, misinformation not so good

The cell phone companies should stop fighting this and post the numbers along with the comparable information for the amount of infrared radiation -- electromagnetic radiation of far higher energy than cell phone radio waves -- produced internally by the brain itself, including the vastly higher relative energy level of infrared photons.

I'm all in favor of research into possible effects of radio waves on nerve signaling (though the bulk of the evidence so far of any effect is pretty weak), but the idea that radio waves could cause tumors is quite a stretch. "Electromagnetic radiation" sounds scary, because as we all know some kinds of radiation certainly can cause tumors. But from everything I've read, there's no credible evidence tumors can be caused by photons too weak to produce chemical changes, and cell phone radio wave photos are too weak by many orders of magnitude. If you dumped enough of them into a small area you could heat it up to literally cook the tissue and that would do it, but that would require a cell phone pumping out vastly more power than any real cell phone produces. I have a lot of concerns about a lot of environmental risks, and I trust cell phone companies and their lobbyists about as far as I could throw the Great Pyramid, but cell phone tumors I can't work up any worry about at all.

[Socal31]

5. Cell phones are the next cigarettes.

Everyone is pretending that holding it near your ear couldnt possibly do anything, much like people used to pretend inhaling smoke couldnt.

[seafan]

6. The corporate lobbyists finally lost this one.

On June 15, 2010, San Francisco just became first in nation to pass a law requiring stores to inform customers of cell phone radiation levels.


Links to studies and a comprehensive cell phone list with radiation safety levels here.

[KurtNYC]

7. The best way to avoid exposure is with a handsfree headset

NOT a Bluetooth. For about $7 you can keep the cell phone far enough away from your brain.

Many brain surgeons, including the one who operated on Ted Kennedy, will not place a cell phone to their head.

[One_Life_To_Give]

8. Be easy to tell which ones work best in remote locations

However since battery life is a key differentiator in the cell phone market. We won't have any idea how effectively one or the other reduces broadcast power in the more typical locations with frequent cell phone towers are located. So effectively the information would be near useless in a place like Manhattan or San Francisco.

[Robb]

9. San Francisco to warn consumers about cell radiation levels

Source: CNN

San Francisco, California, likely will become the first U.S. city to require cell phone companies to disclose how much radiation their gadgets emit.

The city's board of supervisors voted 10-1 on Tuesday in favor of a law that would require handset makers to post in stores how much wireless radiation their phones give off, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Mayor Gavin Newsom is expected to sign the measure into law. The city says consumers can use the information to differentiate between cell phones that emit relatively low and high levels of radiation.

Some researchers link those emissions to cancer and brain tumors, although there is no scientific consensus on the matter.

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/06/16/san.francisco.cell.radiation/

[dipsydoodle]

10. Good idea

I never did figure these nutters with their ear jammed up against a 'phone seemingly half their life.

[Heddi]

11. kick

[demoleft]

12. San Francisco passes mobile phone radiation law

Source: afp

AFP - San Francisco is adding to its politically correct image with a law requiring mobile phone makers to warn customers that the gadgets are bathing them in radiation.

San Francisco's elected board of supervisors approved the unprecedented law in 10-to-1 vote on Tuesday and it is expected to be signed by mayor Gavin Newsom, who has endorsed the measure.

The law requires makers of mobile phones to display in their stores details of the levels of radiation emitted by different handsets or face a 300-dollar fine.

In particular, shoppers must be shown estimates of how much of the radio wave radiation from each mobile phone model is absorbed into the body of the person using it.

Read more: http://www.france24.com/en/20100617-san-francisco-passes-mobile-phone-radiation-law

[polichick]

13. Good move! nt

[OnlinePoker]

14. How about second hand radiation for those of us who don't partake of these annoying things? n/t

[awoke_in_2003]

15. if they are lobbying against it...

it makes you wonder what the problem is?