A new health warning has been released this week claiming that teenagers who excessively send text messages off their mobile phones are more likely to drink, smoke and have sex.The study was produced by Dr Scott Frank, a physician and public health expert at Case Western Reserve School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. He surveyed about 4,000 high school students, aged 13 to 18, at 20 local schools on their texting and social media habits. Almost 20% were classified as ‘hyper-texters’, meaning that they send more than 120 text messages on a school day.
The results of the study suggested that taking into account lifestyle factors and income, ‘hyper-texters’ were more likely than other students to have smoked, drunk alcohol, used drugs and had sex.
Similar findings were reported for the one in 10 teenagers who fell into the category of hyper-networking - spending more than three hours of a school day on social networking websites.
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