Is loneliness really as bad for you as smoking?
The comparison gets repeated so often it sounds like a slogan, but it comes from a real meta-analysis: across 148 studies, weak social ties predicted mortality about as strongly as a daily cigarette habit. What is far less settled is the other half — whether programmes designed to build connection actually change the outcome.
The risk association is well established; evidence that interventions reverse it is thin and mixed
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