Last but not least: communication problems endanger health

The Internet, the evil beast, has been blamed for many things: Gambling addiction because of all the online casinos, shopping frenzy among Ebay shoppers, disintegrating morals because of the countless sex sites. Now an Austrian doctor is expressing suspicion that the Internet is having an impact on young people's addiction to nicotine and alcohol. "In my opinion, young people today have a communication problem," Reinhard Haller of the Maria Ebene addiction center in Frastanz near Feldkirch says, according to SDA. Young people can communicate perfectly via the Internet. Face to face, however, they have problems telling others something, expressing feelings or asking someone for something. This has led to substitute modes of communication taking the place of face-to-face, he said. "Smoking is a typical example of this," Haller said.
So the communications industry, with all its communications know-how, can take up a new mission: Preventing young people from hanging on to the bottle at a tender age and chiming like chimneys.