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Child Advocates Back Surgeon General's Call for Tobacco-Like Warnings on Social Media

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Child Advocates Back Surgeon General's Call for Tobacco-Like Warnings on Social Media | Common Dreams
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Like cigarettes, online platforms denounced as products "whose business model depends on addicting kids."
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    There’s no actual science about social media causing health problems like cigarettes.

    It’s a politician and state control issue.

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      https://www.apa.org/news/podcasts/speaking-of-psychology/teen-social-media-use

      https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7785056/

      This Harvard one is over 7 years old.

      https://www.gse.harvard.edu/ideas/usable-knowledge/17/12/social-media-and-teen-anxiety

      I think you have a critical thinking issue.

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      It’s literally cited on the HHS page about it: https://www.hhs.gov/surgeongeneral/priorities/youth-mental-health/social-media/index.html

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