In the two weeks following the smoking ban, texting across Orange’s network of 17 million mobile phone users shot up by 7.5 million texts, leading Orange to dub the trend ‘smexting’.
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In the two weeks following the smoking ban, texting across Orange’s network of 17 million mobile phone users shot up by 7.5 million texts, leading Orange to dub the trend ‘smexting’.
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Hence the arrival of a new “trend” for “smexting”: an increased number of text messages being sent because smokers (now forced to hang outside since the adoption of a smoking ban in England on July 1) are spending their time tapping away on their mobile phones.
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Ever since the public smoking ban was set in the UK, a record number of text messages have been sent, a phenomenon the Daily Mail has dubbed, "smexting".
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The British mobile carrier Orange reported a surge in texting when the ban went into effect, but the company claims that people were smexting friends who might help them to quit.
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