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Apps of Android and Apple blamed for teen smoking

Apps of Android and Apple blamed for teen smoking

According to a new study from the University of Sydney, free mobile phone apps downloadable from the Apple App Store or Google Play may be playing a short role in encouraging smoking behavior. 

We are living in an environment that's totally toxic with harmful gases like carbon monoxide, CFC's and other. Pollutants from vehicles exhausts, the smoke of cigarette fills our lungs with carbon that's dangerous for us. The study looked at 107 apps in the Apple store and Android market and said that the "pro smoking" apps like the puff puff pass app in which the only point is to smoke and pass along a cigarette and it is surely going to induce the teenagers to smoke.

Posted By Ralph Clinton

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