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Are Smartphones Harming Teenagers?

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC World Service OnlineLatest broadcast: on BBC World Service

Available for over a year

The spread of smartphones has come with increasing rates of depression in teenagers. Psychologists are debating whether too much time online and looking at screens is causing rising rates of obesity, depression and even suicide, or whether these problems are - for some reason - affecting all of society including teenagers.

(Photo: Teenager using smart phone in bed. Credit: Getty Images) Show less

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