Cell Phones Are Bad

Cell Phones Being Bad

As time passed and society grew larger and larger, so did the way we communicate to each other. We went from face to face interaction, to handwritten letters, to typed letters, to phone calls, to email. Now in the twenty-first century most of society has cell phones. With cell phones they have two different functions. One is to call and actually talk and the other one is to type what you want to say and send it to another person who also has a cell phone and receive it as a text. As the years pass younger and younger children start to get there first cell phone. When someone gets a cell phone at any age may be susceptible to cancer, when it comes time to start driving become a hazard, and have a lack of social skills.

As someone grows up they are constantly around radiation. Natural radiation from the sun and unnatural radiation from practically anything human made. When you add having a cell phone, they are just putting radiation close to the body. Cell phones emit radio waves, a form of non-ionizing radiation. Tissue nearest to the cell phone can absorb the energy given off by it (Larjavaara). So when holding a call with a cell phone it is basically holding radiation next to the brain. Therefore, the brain is absorbing direct contact with radiation. The other place that gets the full blast of this would be either side of your thigh, depending on which pocket the phone is held in. Although we do not know whether cancer can be directly related to cell phone use yet, scientists are still doing studies to make sure whether it is or is not. One of the studies known as "COSMOS," which has participants record their lifestyle before and after cell phone use for 20 years (National).

Now that cell phones have gotten to be a common item to have with you when you are driving, people are becoming more careless. When driving any vehicle, that should have your undivided attention so a mishap does not happen. In the couple years since cell phones have become popular there have been more people using them while driving. This in itself is a hazard just as bad as drunk driving because it is splitting your attention in two. From the National Safety Council Report it states, "that in simulated driving tests, those subjects that were asked to carry on a cell phone conversation were so distracted that they went unaware of some traffic signals (Cellphone)". There are two different ways to use the phone when driving. One way is a hands on way, which consists of dialing, answering, text messaging, etc (Cellphone). The other way is by hands free use of your phone. Although there is no involvement with the phone directly, it still preoccupies the thought process and distracts from driving. As it shows in the graph, the relation between the total deaths with cell phone users "wireless subscribers" are significantly high. Also, the graph shows the relation with the cell phone users and the amount of motor vehicle fatalities (Philip).

People use cell phones all the time. Since the cell phone was created, it has made it less of a hassle to