Response to "Letter re: Benchmarking social isolation, loneliness and smoking: challenges and opportunities for public health."

Am J Epidemiol. 2024 May 22:kwae080. doi: 10.1093/aje/kwae080. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Robert W Smith¹, Julianne Holt-Lunstad², Ichiro Kawachi³

Affiliations

¹ Division of Social and Behavioural Health Sciences, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
² Department of Psychology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States.
³ Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

PMID: 38775293
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwae080

No abstract available

Keywords: Benchmarking; Cigarette Smoking; Interpersonal Relations; Loneliness; Public Health; Public Policy; Smoking; Social Isolation; Tobacco.