Video games with smoking and drinking have a negative effect on teens, finds new study

Worrying correlation: A new UK study has found a direct link between playing video games featuring alcohol and tobacco and drinking and smoking behaviour in teenagers.

To carry out their study the team looked at content of 32 of the UK's best-selling video games of 2012/2013.

The team included games from the genres of stealth, action adventure, open world, shooter and survival/horror because the characters look and behave like real people.