Let's debunk this chain mail - don't hold your cell phone close to your ear

[Acsenray]

A close relative has sent me another message with the question “How much of this is true?” Usually when this happens, I track down references (such as Snopes). I also remind this close relative that these things have never turned out to be true. This time I can’t find specific references for debunking. I suspect that might be because this message seems to have originated in India. Anyway, here it is.

@stupid chain message

1. Don’t put your mobile closer to your ears until the recipient answers, Because directly after dialing, the mobile phone would use it’s maximum
   signaling power, which is: 2watts = 33dbi. Please Be Careful. Please use left ear while using cell (mobile), because if you use the right one it
   may affect brain directly. This is a true fact from Apollo medical team.

2. Do not drink APPY FIZZ . It contains cancer causing agent.

3. Don’t eat Mentos before or after drinking Coke or Pepsi coz the person will die immediately as the mixture becomes cyanide. Please fwd to whom u
   care

4. Don’t eat kurkure because it contains high amount of plastic if U don’t Believe burn kurkure n u can see plastic melting. Please forward to all!!! News report from Times of India

5. Avoid these tablets as they are very dangerous

• D cold
• Vicks action- 500
• Actified
• Coldarin
• Co some
• Nice
• Nimulid
• Cetrizet-D

They contain Phenyl- Propanol -Amide PPA.Which Causes strokes, and these
tablets are banned in U.S.

6. Cotton Ear Buds… (Must read it) Please do not show sympathy to people selling buds on roadside or at Signals… Just wanted to warn you people
   not to buy those packs of ear buds you get at the roadside. It’s made from cotton that has already been used in hospitals. They take all the dirty, blood and pus filled cotton, wash it, bleach it and use it to make ear buds. So, unless you want to become the first person in the world to get Herpes Zoster Oticus (a viral infection of the inner, middle, and external ear) of the ear and that too from a cotton bud, DON’T BUY THEM!

Please forward to all this may be helpful for someone… Please forward to all your near and dear ones…!

[CookingWithGas]

1. http://www.hoax-slayer.com/use-left-ear-mobile.html

2. Yahoo | Mail, Weather, Search, Politics, News, Finance, Sports & Videos

3. Bullshit but I can’t find anything authoritative

4. Manufacturer denies it, unable to locate independent testing

5. FDA says neither safe nor effective. Don’t know whether the products listed here actually have it.

6. This one is just really out there. Do people routinely buy cotton at intersections in India and stick it in their ears?

[IAmNotSpartacus]

2 watts out of a cell phone? Yeah right. A bag (car) phone will do 3 watts transmit, but that’s going out an external antenna mounted outside the car. GSM phones do about 850mW, CDMA 1W maximum.