Thursday, October 25, 2012

Voice of America: Smartphone Apps Encouraging Young People to Smoke

Voice of America
Voice of America is an international news and broadcast organization serving Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Russia, the Middle East and Balkan countries
Smartphone Apps Encouraging Young People to Smoke
Oct 25th 2012, 20:51

Public health officials say tobacco companies are circumventing a worldwide ban on youth-targeted advertising by marketing smartphone applications, or "apps," designed to entice young people to smoke.  Armando Peruga is program manager for the World Health Organization's Tobacco-Free Initiative.  He says there is a popular new type of software that's proliferating in Internet app stores and being downloaded to young peoples' mobile devices and smartphones.  ...

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