Starting this Monday, drivers who are caught using a cell phone while driving in B.C. can get a $167 fine, and those found texting or emailing will also net three penalty points.
I first took notice of cell phone scares when watching a television series based on former British Tory MP Alan Clark's Diaries. The then cabinet minister was convinced his terminal brain cancer (he died of a brain tumour in 1999) was down to his heavy cell phone use.