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Decline in teenage smoking with rise in mobile phone ownership: hypothesis
BMJ 2000; 321 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.321.7269.1155 (Published 04 November 2000) Cite this as: BMJ 2000;321:1155- Anne Charlton, emeritus professor,
- Clive Bates, director (clive.bates@dial.pipex.com)
- School of Epidemiology and Health Sciences, University of Manchester, Stopford Building, Manchester M13 9PT
- Action on Smoking and Health, London EC2A 4HW
EDITOR—The good news is that the seemingly inexorable rise in teenage smoking in Britain has reversed. A sharp decline in the late 1990s has been as fast as the rise in the early 1990s. The table shows changes since the peak in 1996.1
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We hypothesise that the fall in youth smoking and the rise in ownership of mobile phones among adolescents are related. The functions that …
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