A recent US study has found that teenagers who continue to text on their phones after turning off the lights for bedtime have poorer sleep and poorer grades than those who text with the lights on.
The new study, by Rutgers University, is the first of its kind to find an association specifically between night-time texting and the sleep quality and school performance of American teens.
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