{"id":89657,"date":"2026-05-26T06:44:39","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=89657"},"modified":"2026-05-26T06:44:39","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T06:44:39","slug":"social-media-as-bad-for-young-people-as-smoking-top-doctors-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/05\/26\/social-media-as-bad-for-young-people-as-smoking-top-doctors-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media as bad for young people as smoking, top doctors say"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1008\/cpsprodpb\/12d7\/live\/c842a850-55d6-11f1-bb1a-df2243910f20.jpg\" alt=\"A teenage boy wearing a navy school uniform blazer, tie and white shirt holds an orange smartphone out in front of him.\" width=\"637\" height=\"358\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Social media use ranks with smoking as a threat to the health of young people, according to the UK&#8217;s most senior doctors.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/c5y7r9gqp6jo\"> Read More<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Social media use ranks with smoking as a threat to the health of young people, according to the UK&#8217;s most senior doctors&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65490,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/children-on-phones.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89657"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89658,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89657\/revisions\/89658"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}