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Closed Outlaw Smartphones for all under 16's.

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To prohibit the sales and posession of all Smartphones among anyone under the age of 16.

The mental health & wellbeing of school age teenagers has been terribly affected ever since the introduction of Smartphones for a huge variety of reasons.

Children are faced with a barrage of sexualised imagery and there is constant pressure to look & be a certain way. Plus there is the dangers of pornography & being groomed by sexual predators who are often much older men.

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