Are cell phone waves harmful?
In Los Angeles, we have a lot of air pollution to worry about, and cell phones may be causing air pollution that doesn’t gather in the sky the same way. There is no doubt that cell phones emit a small amount of electromagnetic radiation, but whether it is enough to be harmful or absorbed by your tissue is another issue. Cell phones emit a very low level of electromagnetic frequency. This is generally between 0 and 300 gigahertz, and according to the Food and Drug Administration, it is not dangerous. These frequencies are radio waves; in a sense they are the same waves that cook food in a microwave or send non-satellite radio to your car. More extreme cases of these waves, X-rays and gamma rays are found to cause ionization, or the removal of electrons from human tissue, but there is no ionization in cell phone use. Many people turn to hands-free technology such as cordless Bluetooth devices or headsets. These limit the actual physical contact of the phone to the head while emitting rad
