A teenager holds a mobile phone in Sydney on Dec.10, 2025. Hollie Adams/ReutersUK senior doctors have warned that the exposure of children to phones and social media is fueling a health and safety crisis, comparing the harms to past public health battles over seatbelt laws and smoking.A May 26 report by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges described concerns among frontline clinicians who said children are increasingly arriving in hospitals with mental health, behavioral, and physical harms linked to online activity.
UK Doctors Compare Social Media Harms Affecting Children to Smoking
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