Are mobile phones giving us cancer?

Tegan Taylor: Tell me about your first mobile phone. Tegan Taylor: Tell me if this is a good analogy or not; if I'm saying something in this tone or this note… Norman Swan: You're giving me cancer, yeah. Although people say, well, you're using your phones for maybe an hour or two a day, we now know how much our screen use is because… Tegan Taylor: Gosh, more than…like, think about how close your phone is to your body throughout 24 hours, especially if it's, like, next to your head while you're sleeping. Tegan Taylor: So the bigger health harm with our phones is what we're consuming rather than… Norman Swan: What's on that damn screen, that's right, and the time spent on the screen that's not spent chatting to another human being or a child playing in the garden. Tegan Taylor: Oh yeah, everyone's obsessed with going to space, and you and I see those space health stories come through… Norman Swan: I can think of a few people I would want to send into space, you know.