ByBill Toulas-January 13, 2020.597 The Vermont Senator introduced a ground-breaking proposal to ban young people’s smartphones. The senator is of the view that cell phones trigger road accidents and erodes the youth on social media. The law is meant to help spark debates on the subject and there’s no guarantee it will really go through. In fact, the senator also claims that young people are too inexperienced to use secure cell phones. He discusses using phones to engage in bullying being recruited into racist teams entering radical online communities advocating mass shooting videos and social media ideas and more. All of this ends up doing the youngsters more harm than good. The senator suggests that the same age limits will apply to mobile use based on the same rationale that bans cigarette smoking alcohol consumption and possession of firearms for all under 21. In the event that the bill passes the senator, the suggested provisions indicate that underage persons found using a phone will receive a prison sentence of up to one year or a fine of one thousand dollars or both. The senator himself, however, has stated in an interview that he does not expect that the bill will pass. As he said, he merely put forward the idea to spark a debate about this serious matter that is a life-threatening problem in the U.S. It would be highly anachronistic and very difficult to enforce such a banning statute, and the senator said he would not even vote it himself. The reality is that texting while driving is a problem that affects all men, not just adolescents and not just the US, not all countries around the world. Many police departments rely on road cameras to capture drivers who use their mobile phones while driving, and often punish the fines very much. Yet this is something that manufacturers of smartphones and cars do not tackle, as they have implemented nothing to help stop using phones while driving. For now, education and the law are the only two ways to tackle this critical safety issue.