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Yeah "smartphones" are the issue here...
This comes out of nowhere in the article. It is not smartphones per se. It is the social media kids access that does it, and no wonder, we all know how insane that is for an adult mind.
While probably not possible on this scale of a study, they should have looked how much % of phone use was social media, and I am sure they'd have found a correlation between all the negatives they listed and the amount of social media they consumed.
That also means taking away smartphones is no use here if kids can access the same social media via computers.
Well, except that without a pocket computer kids, and everyone really, will spend much less time on social media, getting notifications, seeing ads, and all of the other things that most phones push at their users.