September 10, 2007

Heart attacks drop by 17 per cent after smoking is banned

Further dramatic evidence emerged last night to show that banning smoking in public reduces the rate of heart attacks.

Hospital admissions for heart attacks dropped by 17 per cent in the year after the legislation was introduced in Scotland.

If the pattern is repeated throughout the UK, there would be almost 40,000 fewer heart attacks a year.


Pattern? It was one year.

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