[ExTexasRedhead]

What is the long-term danger of these scanners on people who travel frequently. Cancer???????

[null and void]

None. It’s far infrared, not x-rays.

[MadelineZapeezda]

yes, skin cancer

[SueRae]

Remember those fluoroscopes in shoe stores decades ago?

I travel fairly frequently, I will opt out of this scanner. The grope-frisk will stop, too. I remember when they first started doing the back of the hand frisking, too, they’ve all but stopped that (in my experience).

I’m not waiting to hear 5 years from now that there is an increased risk of ANYTHING with exposure to the full body scanner. Just put me in the other line.

This is so totally reactive anyway. When they start smuggling explosives in body cavities or swallowing them, what will TSA/Homeland Security want then...pre-admission colonoscopies? Were does this end?

[Frantzie]

Yes. This is such garbage. I was x-rayed the last time I flew and I am pretty much done with flying.

[SeeSac]

What is the long-term danger of these scanners on people who travel frequently. Cancer???????

About the same amount of radiation you get from three minutes of the flight at cruise altitude.

[BossLady]

Articles - (ionizing radiation apparently can cause DNA structural destabilization and damage)

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1290527/Airport-body-scanners-deliver-radiation-dose-20-times-higher-thought.html

http://energyfanatics.com/2010/11/09/naked-airport-body-scanner-may-increase-cancer-risk/

http://www.naturalnews.com/028149_ionizing_radiation_airport_scanners.html

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/292414

The choices are -

1 - Destroying DNA

2 - Sexual assault

If I can't drive or take a train to where ever I am going....I am not going....