"Q: I only keep my #phone for emergencies when I travel. That has minimal impact, right?

A: The other thing that happens when you make a call is you are demanding service. When you turn on your phone in a remote location where cell phone service is poor or non-existent, your provider registers that as a request for service. If it gets enough requests for service in that location, it will build a #cell #tower there. Even in a city, when more people make calls at the same time than there is capacity for in the nearest tower, or when everyone starts using more bandwidth or gets more apps than the tower can handle, calls start to be dropped, each dropped call is registered as a request for service, and soon your city has applications for even more cell towers to handle the increased traffic.

Q: I got sick from a #smart phone. My flip phone is much safer, right?

A: Smart phones didn’t come among us until 2004. But the first wave of digital, voice-only cell towers in the United States in 1996 #killed at least ten thousand #people in a matter of months,[22] and millions more from diabetes, heart disease, and cancer in the succeeding years.[23]

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