TIL that loneliness is as lethal as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. A meta-analysis of 148 studies found that weak social connections increased the risk of early death by 50%, making loneliness more dangerous than obesity or physical inactivity
https://journals.plos.org/plosmedicine/article?id=10.1371/journal.pmed.1000316
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