CELEBRITY endorsements do little to sell the quit-smoking message to indigenous communities, but researchers have found that examples set by family and friends who stub out have a big impact on those around them. University of Canberra PhD candidate Raglan Maddox and Dr Ray Lovett presented some of their research findings to the prestigious Richard Doll seminars in public health and epidemiology at Oxford University. ''We have been looking at social networks, and what we found was that the indigenous community is pretty cohesive. It's a small community and people are well connected,'' Mr Maddox said. ''But when we looked at smokers and non-smokers, we found they tended to be quite close t... [Read more]