Personal Experience: Avoiding Airport Body Scanners

One traveler writes:

“I have never walked through an airport body scanner — or, as I think of it, ‘the cancer machine.’ In the years since these radiation chambers began appearing in airports across the United States, I have developed a variety of tricks to avoid submitting myself to them.”

This first-person account highlights the concerns many passengers have regarding radiation exposure from full-body scanners.


Read the full article:
Showdown at the Airport Body Scanner — The New York Times Opinionator, 25 May 2013
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/25/showdown-at-the-airport-body-scanner/