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Cell phone use increases your risk of brain tumors

Try a 290 percent increase in just 10 years of usage.

Read that statistic again. Creepy, right? Downright terrifying, even. So why do we continue to use cell phones when we know the risk they present? I know they are super convenient—my cell phone was helpful to me four times today—but we did live without them every year of our homo sapien lives up until about a decade or two ago. And even in the beginning, it was really business folks and doctors who used them (or pagers or car phones) the most, not everyone.

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