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Originally posted by FattMatt
I'm not here for X-Rays giving people cancer and killing more people in the long run
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i'm not here for sitting in a cinema eating popcorn and taking a bullet to the head.
everyday i'm exposed to free radicals... doubtful it would be the x-ray scanners doing me in.
But there are different types of scanners.
Millimeter wave scanners do not use radiation that is known to increase cancer risk by any significant amount (non-ionized). Walking into a smoker's 2nd hand smoke is more dangerous, so is being out in the sun. Some studies have shown that these types of scanners can actually slow the spread of cancerous cells. Metal detectors are also basically harmless.