An incorrect use of a cellphone
can cause cancer, a court in the northwestern Italian city of
Ivrea has said.
In its ruling, the court sentenced work-accident compensation
agency INAIL to pay a professional illness pension to a worker
diagnosed with a tumour after using a cellphone without
protection for three hours a day for 15 years.
The tumour, benign but invalidating, was caused by the
incorrect use of the cellphone, a judge ruled.
Cellphone emissions "should be classified in group one of
certain cancer-causing agents for man," Professor Angelo Levis
said in his expert opinion for the Ivrea court.
The man's lawyer said "let's hope the sentence leads to a
campaign to raise awareness, which doesn't yet exist in Italy".
The man, 57-year-old Roberto Romeo, said "I don't want to
demonise the use of the cellphone but I think it's necessary to
use it with awareness".
Romeo was said to work for a "major" Italian firm, which was
not named.
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