TSA Removes X-Ray Body Scanners From Major Airports, But Some Will Remain

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If you are concerned about the radiation from a backscatter scanner because you fly a lot, then stop flying, because every New York to LA flight is like having a chest x-ray and is about 50 times more radiation than the scan you passed through to get on the flight.

@ Edward: Skin cancers are caused by cumulative exposure to UV light, not x-rays . Every day, the people in Denver are getting the equivalent of one backscatter screening more in radiation than people living in New York city, because they are a mile high (above sea level) and are exposed to that much more cosmic radiation from space 24/7/365 and they don't have an epidemic of cancers in Denver compared to New York.

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