Cell Phones and the Balance Between Convenience and Safety The increased popularity of cell phones in the recent years has done so much to make our everyday lives easier and more efficient. ... But at the same time, cell phones have connected us to each other and made everyone and everything-friends, family, even the Internet just a phone call away. ... There have been efforts in recent years to ban cell phones from being used while driving, a response to the increased number of automobile accidents. ... Teenagers, who compromise a large segment of the cell phone consumer market, are ine...

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Cell Phones Why have them if you can't use them? ... In this day and age cell phones are almost a necessity. ... Cell phone use is at an all-time high, and researches believe about 186 million new cell phone subscribers will sign up every year between now and 2007. This cell phone craze is due to the fact that in modern America cell phones are becoming a necessity. ... Students should have the choice to use cell phones in school. ...

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That's why we've compiled this definitive list of the main advantages and disadvantages of cell phones. ... Since the first cell phone, we've been able to make calls while on the go. ... Add to this the cell phone towers constantly popping up to give us ever-improving reception and even being in a building or outside of the city isn't the problem it used to be. ... Fortunately for you, today's cell phones mean that's not a problem anymore. ... Lead to Some Pretty Serious Accidents That's not the only way the inattention to their surrounding caused by cell ph...

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Cell phones. ... In our world of being "on the go" and always rushing to do something, cell phones have become a necessity. ... It's the same with driving and talking on the cell phone. ... This handy device fits in your ear and allows you to talk on a cell phone with your hands free. ... It makes me wonder, what the heck did people do before cell phones? ...

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Cell phones have become the norm in today's society. ... The impact of cell phones on society has become huge. ... When the cell phone first debuted, its only function was to make calls. ... Cell phones have become a part of people, a way to establish a unique identity. ... Unfortunately, cell phones have impacted society in a negative way, as well. ...

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Cell phones and society There is no doubt that cell phones have had an impact on society, both good and bad. ... On the flip side, however, misuse of cell phones (for example, use in cars) has been around as long as the cell phone itself. ... Fifteen years ago, cell phones were a rarity. ... Every executive and many workers carry a cell phone, a beeper/pager, or both. ... Unfortunately, cell phones are a double-edged sword, and efficiency has a price. ...

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Wireless telephones are hand-held phones with built-in antennas These phones are a wonderful tool for you to have phones are used by all sorts of people for all sorts of different reasons. but did you know that your phone puts off RF radiation from the antenna. More the less phones are dangerous while driving because your not paying attention to the road for instance when you are trying to dial a number and look at the road at the same time which cause you to drift from side to side. also when you on the phone you can become very angry with the person you are talking to which can cause you t...

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How many more innocent lives have to be taken away before we even consider the ban on cell phones while driving? ... The law that bans the use of cell phones while driving could save a lot of lives, including your own while being around a driver who uses their cell phone while driving. ... Using a cell phone while driving is as dangerous as driving with a blood-alcohol level of .08. Some tests have suggested drivers talking on cell phones are more likely to crash than drunk drivers. ... Cell phones are a convenience and not a necessity. ...

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Can driving while chatting on a cell phone be a dangerous combination? ... As the popularity of cell phones have increased in the last five years, so have the number of public safety advocates who link cell phone use by drivers to numerous minor and fatal automobile accidents. ... A study of Canadian drivers with cell phones found that "the risk of a collision when using a cell phone was four times higher than the risk when a cell phone was not being used" This risk is similar to the hazard associated with driving with a blood alcohol level just above the legal limit. ... It is now estimate...

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An advantage of having a cell phone is the reliability and security it brings in knowing that you have one. In critical points in time, people with cell phones can more easily and faster reach help than those without cellular phones can. ... In at least one case, a cell phone allowed rescuers to find and save a few victims (Shaw). ... Many jobs now require full-time cell contact. ... People feel safer having a cell phone. ...

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Cellular phones have been rapidly increasing day by day around the world in the past years. ... Cell phones are very useful and they are also very safe when on the road. ... Without a cell phone, they would most likely have to flag down a car for help or a ride. ... With a cell phone, all they need to do is make one simple call to a family member or friend near the area and get help from them. ... Those are just a few reasons that I feel cell phones are very useful in our society today. ...

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Last Saturday, my sister and I decided to do a survey on hand phones! I was surprised at the many designs of hand phones in the market. Honestly, who will care if their hand phone can double as a camera? ... I don't see Americans using phones the size of peas. ... I miss the good old handphones; those that just require you to have one single working brain cell to operate with no additional stuff like that bloody camera that is making everyone duck when someone comes near them with one for fear that he is a PI. ...

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A cell phone is very convenient and inexpensive, its no wonder 46 percent of women drivers and 47 percent of men drivers own a cell phone. Over 100 million Americans own a cell phone. ... Part of the reason is the 100 million cell phone users, not to mention every politician owns and uses a cell phone. ... Everyday, there are 100,000 calls to 911 from cell phones. ... A cell phone to me is a very big convenience like I have stated in this paper. ...

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The U.S. has almost no law especially against cell phone use when driving. ... The number of cell phone owners has climbed into the tens of millions. ... A law against driving with a cell phone would not be infringing on a personal right because driving is not guaranteed to you, much less driving while talking on a cell phone. ... The use of cell phones employs all of these distractions. ... The cell phones would be treated the same way. ...

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When cellular phones or cell phones were first introduced onto the market, they were affordable for the wealthy only. To have a cell phone then was a symbol of one's wealth and importance. ... This paved the way for a whole new breed of cell phone. ... Today cell phones have come a long way from their earlier counterparts. ... As cell phones have dropped in price and monthly rates have gotten better increasingly, people are getting cell phones. ...

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Technology has come along way over the years who would of thought something like the cell phone would play such a strategic role in our life. ... Ian Frazier also discussed about the extinction of pay phone " It's the cell phone of course that is putting the pay phone out of business. The pay phone is to the cell phone as the troubled and difficult older sibling is to the cherished newborn." ... In fact I find the cell phone to be a more reliable source of communication. The flexibility alone that you have with the cell phone supercedes the pay phone. ...

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Talking on the cell phone is also a very dangerous driving habit. Cell phones have become very popular amongst our society and are seen almost every where we look. ... People who drive and talk on the cell phone are more accident-prone because their attention is directed to the conversation not to the road. Hundreds of accidents have occurred as a result of careless use of cell phones while driving....

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Other societies have already been through it but that will not reduce the impact of the mobile telephone (cell phone) on our society as distance and time take on new meaning. The cell phone is likely to bring about quite profound changes, more than we anticipate. ...

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