Smoking ban leads to major drop in heart attacks

[LICKING COUNTY FAN]

ATLANTA – A smoking ban in one Colorado city led to a dramatic drop in heart attack hospitalizations within three years, a sign of just how serious a health threat secondhand smoke is, government researchers said Wednesday. The study, the longest-running of its kind, showed the rate of hospitalized cases dropped 41 percent in the three years after the ban of workplace smoking in Pueblo, Colo., took effect. There was no such drop in two neighboring areas, and researchers believe it's a clear sign the ban was responsible.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081231/ap_ ... _ban_heart

[shakennotstirred]

BAN SMOKING EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LICKING COUNTY FAN]

BAN SMOKING EVERYWHERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would vote for that.

[sportsfanatic85]

I wonder what the research would have to say about Ohio, now that we have
a smoking ban in so many areas now?

[LICKING COUNTY FAN]

I wonder what the research would have to say about Ohio, now that we have
a smoking ban in so many areas now?

There's no band here in Buckeye Lake. All of the bars allow smoking and refuse to do anything about when you complain. If you call the 1-800 state number nothing gets done.

[orange-n-brown 365]

wow I heard alot of places got fines.. guess the uppity ups must own the ones up there

[LICKING COUNTY FAN]

wow I heard alot of places got fines.. guess the uppity ups must own the ones up there

Not the case those who own them are nobodies like the rest of us. It's a case of those in charge of the system collecting a paycheck and not having to do any work.

[fuzzhead]

I heard that the rule is that bars can allow smoking as long as they don't serve food?? Not sure if that's true, but it makes sense. If I have to drink on an empty stomach, gimme a pack of Camel non-filters.....