Smoking ban leads to major drop in heart attacks

December 31, 2008 By MIKE STOBBE , AP Medical Writer

(AP) -- A smoking ban in one Colorado city led to a dramatic drop in heart attack hospitalizations, according to a new study that is considered the best and longest-term research to show such a link.



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  • humanist - Dec 31, 2008
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    Sorry. Belief that improvement "was a clear sign of the ban" is NOT acceptable science.

    I can't defend smoking but there are no overbearing statistics in the article.

    Send this to Fox Networks.

  • Bob_Kob - Jan 01, 2009
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    ^ Then what else do you attribute it to you big pessimist?
  • thinking - Jan 01, 2009
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    how about sending this to abc news... All Obama Channel, or CNN... Communist New Network.... or NBC .... Need oBama Channel

    BTW I detest smoking.... but thats another point, but we need more correlation here....

  • CarolAST - Jan 13, 2009
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    It's all a lie. The death rates from AMI in Pueblo actually ROSE the year after the smoking ban. Those anti-smoker frauds only claimed that the rates of HOSPITALIZATION for AMI declined, not deaths! And, they could create a false impression of a decline merely by being too free with admissions (and raking in extra money for it) beforehand, and then magically reduce the admission rate by tightening up the policy.

    http://www.smoker...l#Pueblo

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