Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government Vol. 28, No. 01, 2022 https://cibg.org.au/ P-ISSN: 2204-1990; E-ISSN: 1323-6903 DOI: 10.47750/cibg.2022.28.01.005 52 IDENTIFYING HEALTH RISKS OF EXCESSIVEUSE OF SMARTPHONES IN ADOLESCENTS Muhammad Mutasim Billah Tufail*, Muhammad Shakeel, Raheel Farooqui *muhammadmutasim@bahria.edu.pk Bahria University Karachi Campus, Karachi, Pakistan ABSTRACT It is less likely to be known about risk perception amongst parents who have their adolescents stay in front of smartphones. Our objective is to analyze the usage of smartphones among the young generation nowadays and identify health-related risks linked to them. The smartphone market is the biggest in the world; this cool thing is creating open-mindedness for the whole world and negatively impacting adolescents' minds. This new era's generation is rapidly converting into severe phobias, depressions, and neck-shoulder pain, which are not a good sign. Fifteen students' parents surveyed a private school Students aged between 15 to 17. The result shows that 70% of the students are phone addicted to the problem of anxiety, weak eyes, and carelessness. Keywords: Risk identification, adolescent health, smartphones, and emerging health issues. 1. INTRODUCTION Smartphones have grown to be steadily necessary for lifestyle and supply a considerable type of transportable applications for information, correspondence, instruction, and pride capacities. Cellular telephones have big screens, more processing power, and a flexible way to get connected via wi-fi or robust mobile networks (Suhag et al., 2016). The rapid development of addictive mobile applications e.g., multiplayer games, content streaming platforms, music sharing, social networking, etc., and optionally available capacities like media players, superior cameras, and GPS-based tools (Rideout, 2015; Rideout, 2017). Due to the educational institution changing their way of teaching in this challenging time of the Covid-19 pandemic, smartphones became part of our lives. Accordingto the swiss confederation, nearly all adolescents aged 12–19 years (97.9%) own a portable, maximum of that (96.9%) are smartphones. While unstopped usage of smartphones left many promising ways to decay persistent sicknesses like polygenic disease, there also are clear antagonistic influences on the body and its state (Ng et al, 2020; Tegtmeier, 2018). The use badly impacts typified neck torment manifestations, or there could be mishaps transferring people on foot (Um, Choi & Yoo, 2019). Several studies have stated that smartphones are problematic for mental health and may cause depression and anxiety (Elhai, Dvorak, Levine, & Hall, 2017; Elhai, Levine, & Hall, 2019). Whilst folks consciously use smartphones; they have numerous levels of dependency. Heavily based customers who have immoderate and mistaken use of cell phones show pathological symptoms and maladjusted behaviors of mobile dependency as opposed to assuming everyone as mobile addicts. This also investigates smartphone dependency as an impartial idea that made social life without real significance in reliance on another family member. Considering smartphones are likely to reduce users' attachment, it makes a worthwhile contrast with non-smartphones users in inflicting excessive