There has been a lot of hype and media scare regarding the hazards of using cellular phones. Studies point to radiation which is said to have caused several illnesses with initial symptoms that include headache, nausea and migraine among others. 

Of course, we should not forget the perennial and obvious dangers of driving while talking on the phone or crossing the street while minding the handset. These acts have been proven to be dangerous and are actually deadly. 

In response to mounting calls for human safety and protecting world population that has depended on the mobile devise, governments around the world have imposed various measures in an effort to save man from himself. Laws were enacted to forbid the use of cellular phone while driving on the road and even while parked in a gasoline station for a refill. 

However, a recent survey conducted by Pollster YouGov upon commission from the London Post Office, revealed that more than half of the British respondents get highly stressed when they have no access to a cellular phone. And medicine has already proven time and again that stress can cause several illnesses, even as serious as some forms of cancer, heart failure or stroke.

This lack of mobile phone may be due to its loss, a defect with the devise itself or to a situation wherein they are forced to turn the devise off as in a theater, courtroom or church. In the last case, we could anticipate that those who spend a good number of hours talking on the phone or sending SMS would admit that they would have to sneak out every once in a while to check on their phones.

Apparently, the use of cellular phones is a damn if you do and damn if you don’t dilemma. But that is just the way things are and there seems to no signs that it is going to change in the near future. 

Quite on the contrary, we are to expect more heated debates on this issue with their benefits and value to the 21^st century man on one hand, and the hazards and risks they pose on the other. Short of being hysterical or theatrical, each camp would have studies and surveys to support their positions. 

Therefore, when it comes to such type of questions like, whether or not we should continue or stop using cellular phones, well, to each his own.