Why Your Cell Phone is Like a Cigarette

Direct from Ellie Marks at the Environmental Health Trust

We at the Environmental Health Trust dedicate our expertise and passion to make this a safer world for you and yours. We need your financial support to help us carry on doing so. Our work is far from done. We are now taking the awareness raising San Francisco legislation across the nation. PLEASE make a donation now at the bottom of this email. Considering 6 billion people use cell phones, this is an issue that touches all of us. We are one of the few non-profits working to save the brains of your children and grandchildren. Please help us do so. Thank you.

If you had a chance in the 1960s to prevent a global cancer epidemic arising from tobacco use, would you have done so?

We face a similar situation today, with one important difference. Cell phones are revolutionary devices that can save lives, but we must be smart about how we use them. Unsafe cell phone use has been observed to:

1. Damage DNA
2. Weaken the brain’s protective barrier
3. Lower sperm count
4. Increase long term risk of cancer

and trigger many other health issues we are continuing to learning about. However, most health professionals are unaware of the robust and growing science on the health consequences of cell phone use. Even worse, few parents appreciate that cell phones are basically two-way microwave radios; and they frequently unwittingly expose their young children and infants to cell phone radiation. We want to change that.

Take a half a minute and watch this video that is already changing the way many are thinking about cell phones today.

With your support we can do more work like this to help protect the world’s brains and bodies. Be sure to share this link with all those you care about.

At Environmental Health Trust we are working with experts, schools and community groups to hold major events in London, Ottawa, San Francisco, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Capetown, South Africa and Washington, DC. We have worked with some of the world’s top scientists and local officials ranging from the mayors of Jackson, Wyoming; Portland, Maine; Philadelphia and San Francisco, to parliamentary leaders and experts in Canada, the UK, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Brazil and France.

This is not a theoretical hazard. The governments of Finland, France, China and Israel—nations with a sophisticated appreciation of microwave radiation—are taking steps to encourage safer cell phone habits. Resistance here in the US stems from a lack of conclusive evidence that cell phones harm human health. The tobacco industry said the same thing about tobacco use in the 1960s.

Help us make this a safer world for you.

At EHT, we believe that your ability to influence your own future should not be delayed while government, industry and the medical community wait for evidence of cell phone-related health problems to accumulate. Such evidence-gathering can take decades, and by then it will be too late to preserve the health of today’s cell phone users.

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Act now and have your gift doubled.