Link between teen mobile ownership and less smoking

Link: Texting overcomes drawbacks – National – smh.com.au.

TEEN smoking has finally found a powerful opponent and it’s not the graphic photos of mouth cancer among the new health warnings on Australian cigarette packs.

It’s the mobile phone.

It seems phones have it all: "maturity, individuality, sociability, peer-group bonding, rebellion and adult aspiration". In the teen rebellion stakes, smoking is starting to look like "old technology", according to the British anti-smoking group Action on Smoking.