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Letter: Addicted to the box

Published 15 February 2003

From Phil Joyce

I was very interested by the seven criteria offered as indicators of addiction in your article on fast food (1 February, p 28).

Replace the word “substance” with “television” and almost any one of us will match the required three out of seven criteria. You could even consider obesity as the harm done by “continued use despite…harmful consequences”, making a fourth.

Class action, anyone?

Andover, Hampshire, UK

Issue no. 2382 published 15 February 2003

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