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Child Advocates Back Surgeon General’s Call for Tobacco-Like Warnings on Social Media

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Child Advocates Back Surgeon General’s Call for Tobacco-Like Warnings on Social Media

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Child Advocates Back Surgeon General's Call for Tobacco-Like Warnings on Social Media | Common Dreams

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Like cigarettes, online platforms denounced as products "whose business model depends on addicting kids."

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If the major psychological/pediatric organizations come out in support of this, I’ll eat my words. [Edit] words: Eaten

https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2024/06/social-media-youth
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  I would interpret the American Academy of Pediatricians stance as being supportive. But that’s open to interpretation, I suppose.
  
  https://www.aap.org/en/patient-care/media-and-children/center-of-excellence-on-social-media-and-youth-mental-health/youth-advisory-panel/youth-advisory-panel-feedback-to-policymakers/
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    The APA “welcomes” the warning, so I’m eating my words. https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2024/06/social-media-youth

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