The U.S. Surgeon-General is cautioning against social-media use among young people, but his suggested approach would be a half-measure
U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy speaks during an event on the White House complex in Washington on April 23. Murthy is asking Congress to require warning labels on social media platforms that are similar to those that appear on cigarette boxes.on the health effects of smoking.
about kids’ lives being destroyed by social media. We don’t have the sheer volume of research, including vast longitudinal data, on the harms of social networks as we did on cigarette smoking when Dr. Terry issued his report in 1964, nor has there been established a definitive causal relationship . But plenty of research does show anbetween higher use of social media and, for example, depression in adolescence.
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