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Saturday October 11, 2008

Health risks on young h/phone users


CAP president S.M. Mohamed Idris (right) speaking in a press conference on Mobile Phones and Tumour Risk in Children while showing a diagram on how radiation affects a person.

THE Consumers Association of Penang is appealing to the state government to recognise the potential side effects of mobile phone usage on young children.

It urged the state government to issue a warning to parents to stop children under the age of 12 from using mobile phones as well as run campaigns to warn the public of the possible dangers of radiation exposure.

CAP president S.M. Mohamed Idris claimed that new research from Sweden had found that younger people were five times more likely to develop brain cancer if they were mobile phone users.

“Children are especially vulnerable to radiation from mobile and cordless phone, Wi-Fi and other electromagnetic signal devices.

“It is because their brain and nervous systems are still developing and since their heads are smaller and their skull thinner, the radiation penetrates deeper into the brain,” he told a press conference in George Town yesterday.

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