Maine Representative Andrea Boland wants to require that cells phones in the state carry warnings about the unsubstantiated claim that the radiation they emit causes brain cancer.
"This despite the fact that there has never been any convincing evidence that cell phones have any link to cancer at any site, including brain cancer," says ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan.
ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross adds, "Here's a key statistic: in 2000, there were 110 million cell phone users in the United States. In 2008, there were 270 million cell phone users. That's 150 percent increase in usage, yet we haven't seen any increase at all in the incidence of brain cancer in that time. In fact, the National Cancer Institute notes a significant decline in brain cancer in males from the 1980s until 2007."
