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Yeah but you don't lounge around and rub your face on most of your electronic devices. I don't think your cellphone screen counts.

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It's more about what happens when you toss your phone into the landfill after two years, and the mountain of dead electronics starts leeching toxins into the groundwater.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3908467/

That's reasonable, I guess I was focusing on the direct contact rather than post-disposal issues.

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