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Study: Too Much Teen Texting = Risky Behavior Like Alcohol Abuse, Smoking, and Eating Disorders - Planet Green

If your teen text messages incessantly you may have more to worry about than just your cell phone bill. According to a study at Case Western Reserve University reported in the New York Times, high school students who spend the most time texting or on social networking Web sites (or both) are at risk for other risky behaviors like smoking, risky sex, depression, eating disorders, drug and alcohol abuse, and absenteeism. The study posed a variety of questions to 4,000 students from 20 different urban high schools in Ohio. Twenty percent of students questioned sent more than 120 text messages a day and 10 percent were on social networking sites for more than three hours a day. And 4 perc... Read the full story on Planet Green