• Steroid testing : Using cell phones on airplanes Steroid testing : Using cell phones on airplanes The Record, Bergen County, N.J. — July 25, 2005 Acting Governor Codey deserves credit for creating the first-in-the-nation state task force to look
• Steroid testing : Using cell phones on airplanes
Steroid testing : Using cell phones on airplanes
The Record, Bergen County, N.J. — July 25, 2005
Acting Governor Codey deserves credit for creating the first-in-the-nation state task force to look into steroid use among high school athletes.
Some degree of steroid testing for high school athletes would appear to be a no-brainer. Quite simply, steroids have no place in high school sports, yet a national survey last year found that 3.4 percent of high school seniors admitted to taking steroids at least once — a major increase from a similar survey in the early 1990s. …
Steroids not only give athletes an unfair advantage, but these drugs pose health risks such as high blood pressure, heart attacks, liver cancer and violent rages — and those effects become magnified and more likely to do permanent damage in teenagers.
The greatest deterrent to steroid use is the fear of getting caught. … The task force has until Dec. 1 to examine the extent and effects of teenage steroid use, as well as the legality and practicality of testing high school athletes.
The task force is also supposed to develop a statewide steroid education program and investigate the prevalence of other performance enhancers, including nutritional supplements and human growth hormones.
The Des Moines (Iowa) Register — July 23, 2005
Let’s hope the Federal Aviation Administration and the Federal Communications Commission get the message.
Those are the federal agencies that would have to OK use of cell phones during flights.
Please don’t. Flying these days poses enough aggravation without being subjected to dozens of fellow passengers simultaneously engaged in loud, one-way conversations.
Already, having to listen to cellphone blather is a nuisance at the grocery store. In restaurants. Even at school board meetings. …
At movie theaters, etiquette has (mostly) taken hold. Patrons usually turn off cell phones or put them on vibrate. That should catch on in other settings.
At the very least, cell-phone users should step out of the room.
That’s a problem on airplanes.
- Provided by the Associated Press
