It’s not so smoking hot.
Earlier this year, The Post reported — with great horror — that Hollywood has made smoking “cool” again, despite all the very real health risks.
But being a “cool” social smoker outside a bar with a cigarette between your fingers, it seems, is not the same as being a social butterfly.
According to new research presented at the European Respiratory Society (ERS) Congress in Barcelona, smoking actually leads to increased loneliness.
Previous studies have suggested loneliness leads to an uptake of smoking, but little research had been conducted looking into the opposite effect.
Analyzing data from over 50,000 people who…
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