The Collective Dynamics of Smoking in a Large Social Network
Mount Auburn Hospital · Harvard University · +2 more institutions
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Abstract
Background
The prevalence of smoking has decreased substantially in the United States over the past 30 years. We examined the extent of the person-to-person spread of smoking behavior and the extent to which groups of widely connected people quit together.
Methods
We studied a densely interconnected social network of 12,067 people assessed repeatedly from 1971 to 2003 as part of the Framingham Heart Study. We used network analytic methods and longitudinal statistical models.
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Keywords
- Smoking cessation
- Medicine
- Demography
- Sibling
- Framingham Heart Study
- Spouse
- Confidence interval
- Social network (sociolinguistics)
UN Sustainable Development Goals
- Good health and well-being
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