Cacioppo, one of the nation's leading scholars on loneliness, has shown that loneliness undermines health and can be as detrimental as smoking If the

Cacioppo, one of the nation's leading scholars on loneliness, has shown that loneliness undermines health and can be as detrimental as smoking If they saw a correlation between loneliness and bad health, it does not necessarily mean that the former caused the latter. Perhaps sickly looking women are more likely to be lonely?