The use of the mobile phone is as antisocial as smoking. Smoking is banned in certain places so the mobile phone should be banned like smoking. To what extent do you agree or disagree?

Nowadays mobile

phones

are everywhere, everybody has one and spends a large amount of time looking at its screen. It is argued by some that these electronic devices can have antisocial effects, as

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is the case of smoking, and

therefore

mobile

phones

should be prohibited in certain places as the policies

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the use of cigarettes. While I agree that

phones

can have a significant antisocial impact, it is

also

true that it has a social component as well, as well as smoking. Mobile

phones

have become part of our

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. We take our phone everywhere we want to go and we feel anxious if we forget it at home, or even worse

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if it gets lost or damaged. These devices can influence our

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behaviour

bevaviour

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behaviour

and people can even develop a considerable level of

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dependence

independence

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dependence

. As I said previously, I totally support the idea that

phones

can be antisocial, as

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certain occasions individuals can pay more attention to them than to other people around them.

However

, in

this

day and age mobile

phones

also

contain an array of social applications that the public use to socialize online,

such

as WhatsApp, Instagram, WeChat or Facebook. As regards

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smoking, some detractors (and I include myself) would say that it is an unsocial

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practice

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, due to the fact that there

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many people who cannot stand being close to

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smoker and,

as a result

, they would leave the room

inmediately

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immediately

.

Nonetheless

,

this

activity could be

also

considered at a certain point as social. To illustrate

this

point of view, we can have a look

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the breaks workers use to take for smoking purposes, which are

also

a social situation, as they normally go with other colleagues and socialize. In conclusion, it is no doubt true that

phones

can be as unsocial as smoking in certain situations, but I do not think

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should be banned as

tabacco

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tobacco

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, owing to

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social potential and

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importantace

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importance

in everyone's

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lifes

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lives

life

.