Smoking ban success

New research suggests that cities that enact smoking bans in public places curb heart attack rates as a result, HealthDay reports. Two studies published in separate journals incorporated data from 24 smoking ban studies in cities in the United States, Canada and Europe. Combining the studies showed that heart attacks dropped by at least 17 percent one year after the bans took effect. University of Kansas Professor David Meyers told Health- Day: “The risk reduction got bigger the longer the ban was in effect.”

Meyers’ study was published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. The other study appears in the journal Circulation.

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