[xxii] Hardie, L., McCool, J., & Freeman, B
Another hospital-based case-control study in Tunisia, involving 149 incident lung cancer cases and 188 controls, found a significant association between past cannabis use and lung cancer risk, with an OR of 4.1 (95% CI: 1.9-9.0) after accounting for age, tobacco use and occupational exposures (66)
All of this means that, whenever we see a study that finds a correlation between loneliness and early death, we cant straightforwardly imply that the early death is caused by the loneliness or, at least, we cant say that the whole of the association the whole of the 50 per cent less likely to be alive is due to loneliness itself
Stallone: One hundred percent