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Fig. 1. Chan Lowe, cartoon, Washington Post 22 July 2000: A21.

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to the hazard associated with driving with a blood

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alcohol level at the legal limit. (456)

The news media often exaggerated the latter claim (“similar

to” is not “equal to”); nonetheless, the comparison with drunk

driving suggests the extent to which cell phone use while driving

can impair judgment.

A 1998 study focused on Oklahoma, one of the few states to

keep records on fatal accidents involving cell phones. Using police

records, John M. Violanti of the Rochester Institute of Technology

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investigated the relation between traffic fatalities in Oklahoma and

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the use or presence of a cell phone. He found a ninefold increase

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in the risk of fatality if a phone was being used and a doubled risk

simply when a phone was present in a vehicle (522-23). The latter

statistic is interesting, for it suggests that those who carry phones

Source: Diana Hacker (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2006).

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