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Press Coverage (2010)

April 6, 2010
Drinking Habits Spread in Social Networks (HWS link)
By Anne Harding, CNN.com

STORY HIGHLIGHTS
• Study: People more likely to be heavy drinkers if one of their friends or relatives drank heavily
• The quantity of relationships mattered as well
• Influence spreads up to three degrees of separation in a social network