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Is secondhand screen time the new secondhand smoking?

  • Written by Joelle Renstrom, Lecturer of Rhetoric, Boston University
Babies need to make eye contact with people, not phones.AFP via Getty

The Environmental Protection Agency first warned of secondhand smoke in 1991, some 30 years after scientists determined that smoking cigarettes causes cancer. Today, a growing body of research points toward a new indirect health hazard.

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