No butts about it

Girls' Life, Feb, 2001

On a positive puff, London researchers have noticed a dramatic decrease in teen smoking--and it seems to be in synch with the cell phone obsession that has hit Brits. So experts are wondering...could all this yakking lead to less hacking? Though the British Medical Journal report explains there's no definite link, the numbers indicate that something is going on.

In 1996, 30 percent of British 15-year-olds smoked. In 1999, that figure dropped to 23 percent. The researchers took those figures and compared them with teen cell phone use, which went up to a whopping 70 percent late last year. So what's up? Could there be a connection? Maybe teens talking too much can't find the time to smoke? Regardless of what's really going on, Marlboro must be hatin' it and Motorola must be lovin' it!