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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Tim Dowling

Phones are the new cigarettes: why restaurants are discouraging and even banning them

A blue sign in foreground on a pub serving counter reads: 'We are a digital detox pub' with bottles behind and stacked glasses to the right of photo
A sign discouraging mobile phone use in the White Horse pub, Soho, London. Photograph: Tony Smith/Alamy

Name: Phone bans.

Age: Their provenance is considerable; their time is now.

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