Smoking kills an average 1,200 Americans daily, US tobacco companies admitted Sunday in court-ordered “corrective statements” published in newspapers. The ads began appearing 11 years after District Judge Gladys Kessler, in a 1,682-page opinion, ruled in 2006 that the companies violated racketeering laws by deceiving the public for decades on the health dangers of smoking. She…
Apply this to the cell phones / cell towers industry, and you will have an idea of what’s going to happen a number of years from now, only on a much bigger scale (not everybody smoked, whereas everyone has a cell phone today). While the telecommunications industry, with the deepest pockets in history after the oil industry, has been so far successful in keeping a lid on it, the increasing array of evidence linking brain cancers and quasi universal cell phone / WiFi use is bound to trigger a huge backlash. History is repeating itself. Different actors, same play. Just you watch this iteration unfold.