Consider the town of Pueblo, Colorado.
Since banning smoking in public places three years ago, hospital admissions for myocardial infarctions had declined 41% from pre-ban levels.
MedPage Today points to the numbers from the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, and also finds that neighboring counties, which did not implement the smoking ban, did not see the benefit of reduced heart attack admissions.
The data leads the editors of the journal to conclude that “considering smoke-free policies [is] an important component of interventions to prevent heart disease morbidity and mortality.”
As The Happy Hospitalist states, perhaps we should consider a federal ban on smoking in public places. “It is an issue of public health,” he says, and adds that “since I have a right not to be harmed by a smokers actions, my right of way in a public setting trumps the smoker.”
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Yet another socialist feels the need to point a gun, via government coercion, at people not behaving they way they should.
Why not direct people to the comments, which shows the “Happy” Hospitalist unable/unwilling to argue *why* this is a good idea for her views but not others? Or where she ignores questions about personal responsibility and the inability of humans to legislate it (If you could, would we have a drug problem in the US?).
Guess it doesn’t fit the narrative.
A 40% reduction from a smoking ban would be fantastic. Here in Cayman we are waiting on the enactment of the legislation. Other studies have shown a reduction of 20% in the first year. It will be interesting to see the effect of banning trans-fats has had in New York and elsewhere
The death rates from acute myocardial infarction INCREASED in Pueblo County during the year after the ban!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.smokershistory.com/etsheart.html#Pueblo
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