Decline in teenage smoking with rise in mobile phone ownership: hypothesis
- 4 November 2000
- Vol. 321 (7269) , 1155
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.321.7269.1155
Abstract
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 View this table: Percentages of teenagers who smoked weekly in 1996 and 19991 We hypothesise that the fall in youth smoking and the rise in ownership of mobile phones among adolescents are related. The functions that …Keywords
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