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7. Are there any known health effects related to smart meters?
Answer: There are over 6,000 studies showing biological effects from the same form of radiation that smart meters invisibly
emit – commonly known as “electro-smog” pollution. Additionally, thousands of people across the United States, Canada and
Australia have become ill once smart meters have been installed on their homes. Medical doctors and scientists around the
world are speaking out on the dangers of smart meters. Smart meters emit radiation continuously and cannot be turned off
at night when radiation is the most dangerous for the body and brain. Comparatively, a cell phone – which emits radiation at
levels hundreds of times lower – can be turned off when not in use.
Secondly, smart meters generate what’s known as “dirty electricity” radiation pollution throughout your home, because
of the switching-mode power supply that they utilize. An “opt-out” to a wired digital meter still produces dirty electricity. Only
a non-digital analog meter does not produce dirty electricity.
An individual opt-out still exposes you to the radiation from the neighbors’ meters and other grid infrastructure. And ev-
ery smart meter in your neighborhood adds to the dirty electricity in your home, even if you opt out, because all neighboring
homes share the same power substation.
“We have noted from previous health hazard histories such as that of lead in petrol, and methyl mercury, that ‘early
warning’ scientists frequently suffer from discrimination, from loss of research funds, and from unduly personal attacks on their
scientific integrity. It would be surprising if this is not already a feature of the present EMF controversy as it seems to be still a
common practice as has been recently reported in Nature.”
Professor Jacquie McGlade, executive director of the European Environment Agency, 15 September 2009

8. How many pulses of radiation does my smart meter emit per day?
Answer: Wireless smart meters around the world have been shown to emit between 5,000 and 190,000 pulses per day. Your
utility may state they only transmit 45-60 seconds a day. This is because they are only adding up the millisecond pulses that
occur constantly throughout the day. What they are not telling you is that the pulses occur every few seconds, which means
that the meters are constantly emitting microwave radiation. Your smart meter is continuously communicating with hundreds
of other smart meters, grid infrastructure, and in the future, all appliances in your home.
The levels at which a single smart meter emits radiation can be more than 80 times higher than recommended safety
levels based upon current published science. (Examples: www.BioInitiative.org, and http://www.baubiologie.de/site/english.
php)
In addition to current health risks, unless the smart meter programs are stopped, you will eventually have 10-20 appliances
that each emit a pulse of radiation every few seconds in order to communicate wirelessly with your smart meter. This will fill
your home with even more dangerous pulsed microwave radiation affecting your entire family.
“There is no substitute for a roll back of all Smart Meters at the community level, or higher.”
Ronald Powell, PhD Applied Physics, “Biological Effects from RF Radiation at Low-Intensity Exposure, based on the Bio-
Initiative 2012 Report, and the Implications for Smart Meters and Smart Appliances”, 2013

9. Have smart meters been proven to be safe?
Answer: No. The smart meter industry has not released one actual study on whether smart meters are safe for human beings.
They do not want to look at something that would damage their business. This is the case even though thousands of people have
become ill once smart meters were installed on their home and so much science shows that microwave radiation is dangerous.
It is interesting to note that smart meters do meet federal agency “safety” guidelines. However, the FCC and others' guide-
lines are not actually meant to protect our health. In fact, they are only meant to protect from acute tissue heating and electri-
cal shock over several minutes. They are not meant to protect humans from the long-term, non-thermal levels of microwave
radiation emitted by devices such as smart meters. In fact, there are no true governmental safety standards that govern smart
meters. The utility company is misinformed or simply lying when they say they are safe because they meet the FCC guidelines.
“If a manufacturer wants to give a product to a consumer, especially in this case to everybody – imposed on everybody—
they are the ones who should carry the burden to prove it’s safe before they can give it to the people. It’s not up to consumers
to demonstrate they are unsafe.”
Dr. De Kun Li MD PhD MPH, senior research epidemiologist, Kaiser Permanente Division of Research, in Take Back Your Power

10. Are utilities getting financial kickbacks for forcing smart meters on everyone?
Answer: Yes. As Time Magazine has reported, in the United States eleven billion dollars of taxpayer funds (though there are
reports that this is a conservative estimate) were spent as “incentives” for utilities to attempt to force the installation of smart
meters upon all of their customers without their consent. As this money is divided amongst all utilities, many energy providers
are actually receiving hundreds of millions of dollars in compensation, but first they have to install the meters.
As this sort of incentivizing, perhaps also called bribery, is happening in similar fashion in many other industrialized coun-
tries, the multinational smart meter/smart grid initiative could potentially turn out to be the largest attempted financial scam
in modern history.

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