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Mobile Phone Health Issues

Maintaining the highest standards of health and safety for GSM technology is a global issue.
The GSM Association has initiated a program to promote communications with national governments and the World Health Organization as guardians of public health; technical standard setting bodies as assessors of scientific knowledge and the public as consumers of innovative mobile communications.

- I've read that mobile phones can cause cancer. Is this true?

- What about other health risks?

- How can we be sure that this research is accurate?

- I live close to a base station. Am I at risk?

- My friend wears a hearing aid - can he use a mobile phone?

- Will my pacemaker be affected by the signal from a mobile phone?

- My car has an on-board computer. If I make calls whilst driving, will my phone
disrupt the computer?

- Why can't I use my mobile phone when I fly?

- Why are there so many restrictions on using mobile phones in hospitals?

- What about mobile phone use while driving?

- I've heard reports of mobile phones causing explosions at petrol stations, is this
true?

- What are the safety standards that apply to mobile phones and base stations?

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