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“I read that loneliness is a bigger health threat than smoking, but rather than encouraging me to treat my loneliness with drop-in pottery classes and Hinge, and other things Millennials are clinging to, to beat back the despair, this statistic has only served to nudge me closer to taking up smoking. If the loneliness is already killing me, I may as well be sucking back some modicum of enjoyment.”