I think that mobile phones have a practical benefit which outweighs the practical benefits of cigarettes. I also suspect that there'd be more incentive on the mobile phone industry to develop healthier phones than there is on the tobacco industry to develop healthier cigarettes.
Bah, erm. How about moderate to high use of your phone is highly likely to cause you to die early. I wasn't expecting to have to think about precision in this poll ;-)
I'd thought of that option (I myself hardly use my phone, and when I do, mostly for SMSing). However, I suspect that mobile phones play a fairly large part in the lives of an awful lot of people.
I can only see them being problematic for calls not texting, and with not much passive-mobile-use possibility, so just minimising call time is probably good enough, and I don't use it *much* for calls anyway.
If they were bad just to carry around though and bad for other people too I'd get rid of it and go back to landlines, but I expect phone boxes would gradually come back so it wouldn't be too much of a hardship.
That's a 'minimise usage' but I might change my mind if, for instance, being prepared to use them despite the risks made you particularly attractive in the job marketplace. Or would work use be banned because of it? Would we see a renaissance for phone boxes? Follow-me numbers?
You'd be allowed to use them outside work, but not in the office (and a bloody good thing too IMHO).
Meanwhile, unethical businesses would hire mobile operators to do their high-speed on-the-go communications for them as they scrabbled for a competitive advantage by any means necessary; rumours would abound about the resulting effects on the sanity and potency of these so-called "telemusketeers", but they'd still command a certain kind of grudging respect as hard-bitten mercenaries, phones-for-hire living on the edge of the law.
I don't use mine all that much really, but I suspect I'd only call in emergencies if they were that dangerous. To think that when I was born mobile phones had only just come into existence and were the subject of great ridicule seems, well silly now! Bit like the Internet I suppose. And what would any of us do if we were suddenly without BOTH of those?!
I'd pack the dangerous components densely into a casing and build a vast telecomunications humanity harming device of mass peril with a yield of at least 50 TeraCrazyFrogs. I'd then threaten the world governments..if they don't pay me 100 Billion Pounds in used notes, I would unleash the Jamstapocalpse upon the world..
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Date: 2007-01-22 04:09 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2007-01-22 04:14 pm (UTC)I would not change my usage pattern, which is to minimize usage. This is for social and other personal reasons rather than health ones.
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Date: 2007-01-22 05:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-01-22 04:30 pm (UTC)If they were bad just to carry around though and bad for other people too I'd get rid of it and go back to landlines, but I expect phone boxes would gradually come back so it wouldn't be too much of a hardship.
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Date: 2007-01-22 04:31 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-01-22 04:51 pm (UTC)Meanwhile, unethical businesses would hire mobile operators to do their high-speed on-the-go communications for them as they scrabbled for a competitive advantage by any means necessary; rumours would abound about the resulting effects on the sanity and potency of these so-called "telemusketeers", but they'd still command a certain kind of grudging respect as hard-bitten mercenaries, phones-for-hire living on the edge of the law.
(IM IN UR CYBERPUNK
PHREAKIN OUT.)
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Date: 2007-01-22 04:40 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2007-01-22 04:41 pm (UTC)To think that when I was born mobile phones had only just come into existence and were the subject of great ridicule seems, well silly now! Bit like the Internet I suppose. And what would any of us do if we were suddenly without BOTH of those?!
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