Nicholas A. Christakis, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., and James H. Fowler, Ph.D.
From the abstract:
Network phenomena appear to be relevant to smoking cessation. Smoking behavior spreads through close and distant social ties, groups of interconnected people stop smoking in concert, and smokers are increasingly marginalized socially.
Translation: Smokers are influenced by the behaviour of those in their social circle, and that social circle is getting smaller.
Maybe the reason non-smokers can't stand the company of smokers is that smokers reek of the foul stench of tobacco. Football coach Dave Skrien put it succinctly in his book Countdown to Grey Cup (page 44):
Tobacco is the most useless habit ever invented by man. It is unnecessary, unclean, unhealthful, rude and thoroughly distasteful.
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