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Social media is not like smoking – warning labels will not work
The tactics used for an earlier generation’s health crisis are a poor fit for the mobile phone age and a more nuanced problem.
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The tactics used for an earlier generation’s health crisis are no longer a good fit for our current situation, says the writer.
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Dave Lee
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The US surgeon-general’s call on June 17 for social media services to carry health warning labels
Taking inspiration from the anti-smoking efforts that began in the 1960s, Dr Vivek Murthy’s proposal would, he wrote in The New York Times, “regularly remind parents and adolescents that social media has not been proved safe”.
