Every day in America at least eight people die and 1,161 people are injured involving distracted driving. Having a screen right by the eyes can damage the eyes and cause people to need glasses. When people look at screens before going to bed it messes with their sleep pattern. Staring at a screen for long periods of time every day can lead to childhood obesity. There is concern that cell phones could cause cancer but there is not studys directly connecting cancer with cell phone (Szumski). Cell phones cause tissue heating which makes it seem like it could cause cancer. The tissue heating causes tissue swelling which causes some people to think it causes cancer but in reality the test are too inconsistent to show that it causes cancer (cancer risk). Some studies show that the radiation from phones can cause male infertility. The …show more content…
For the people who own a Samsung phone, Samsung gives a warning when the volume gets over 80 decibels. Two more random side effects of cell phones are hurting thumbs and ghost vibrations when phone is not on the person. Hurting thumbs are when a person texts an excessive amount they can start to hurt because they are not used to being under pressure that much. And ghost vibrations are when a person does not have their phone on them but they feel vibrations like from their phone. This happens because people get so used to feeling that vibration but the brain still thinks it is feeling that vibration when the phone is not even one the person (Childs). One more harm of cellphones is that more and more people are having eye problems because when you stare at a screen for long periods of time it can harm the eyes. If the phone is closer than the length sholder to the elbow away from the face then the phone is to close to the eyes and that means it can harm the