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Question of the Week: Could You Give Up Your Cell Phone If It Posed A Health Risk?

Group classifies cell phones as "possibly carcinogenic".

For many across the U.S. the cell phone has become another appendage...as necessary for them to function as food or air. Try walking a block any time of day or night without seeing someone with a cell phone attached to their ear. Good luck.

So its debatable if recent findings by The International Agency for Research on Cancer, which found that prolonged exposure to cell phones might...might...increase cancer risk and therefore classified cellphones as "possibly carcinogenic", will fall on deaf ears.  According to an Associated Press report it's a classification that also includes "night-shift work, engine exhaust and coffee."

So are the recent reports enough to alter your cell phone behavior? Could you give up your cell phone for a month? A week? A day?

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