Casting Out Smokers

A social network map of people, connected by friendship, family or marriage, contains many smokers at the center of their social groups in 1971. Thirty years later, fewer smokers occupy the network, and those who remain tend to be at the margins of social groups.

SOURCE: James H. Fowler, UC-San Diego | GRAPHIC: The Washington Post

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