Maine to consider cell phone cancer warning

The report highlights a study that found significantly increased risk of brain tumors from 10 or more years of cell phone or cordless phone use.

SHOOT: Rather safe than sorry.

clipped from news.yahoo.com AUGUSTA, Maine – A Maine legislator wants to make the state the first to require cell phones to carry warnings that they can cause brain cancer, although there is no consensus among scientists that they do and industry leaders dispute the claim. The now-ubiquitous devices carry such warnings in some countries, though no U.S. states require them, according to the National Conference of State Legislators. A similar effort is afoot in San Francisco, where Mayor Gavin Newsom wants his city to be the nation's first to require the warnings. Boland herself uses a cell phone, but with a speaker to keep the phone away from her head. She also leaves the phone off unless she's expecting a call. At issue is radiation emitted by all cell phones. The warnings would recommend that users, especially children and pregnant women, keep the devices away from their head and body. Boland said Maine's roughly 950,000 cell phone users among its 1.3 million residents "do not know what the risks are."