The study found that teens who were on social media for more than two hours a day were more than two and a half times more likely to smoke cigarettes and more than three times more likely to use e-cigarettes when compared to those who used social media for one to less than 30 minutes a day.
Published in the journal Nicotine & Tobacco Research, the researchers studied the online habits of around 9,000 teenagers across the UK to better understand how time spent on social media at age 14 years might influence their nicotine use a few years later at age 17 years.
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