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Article: Now we're dying to make a call Mobile phones are the new cigarettes - more antisocial and very noisy, says RORY DUNLOP
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- The Evening Standard (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 3, 2000
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THEY'RE addictive, they're antisocial and they're cancerous -
mobile phones are the new cigarettes. Despite recent reports that
mobile phones may, or may not, be carcinogenic, more and more
continue to be sold. More than 20 million people in the UK have
mobile phones - double the number a year ago.
For the first time, more people have mobile phones than smoke
cigarettes and the gap is only going to widen.
Twenty years ago an average table in an average pub would have
cigarette packets in front of almost every seat. Nowadays mobile
phones mark your place on the table instead.
People used to be judged by the brand they smoked - Marlboro red
for wannabe macho men, Embassy for builders, Silk ...