Fall in heart attacks following smoking ban
A REPORT this week showed heart attacks were down by 20 per cent among non-smokers since Scotland's smoking ban was introduced in March last year.
The study by Professor Jill Pell, of Glasgow University, covered nine hospitals, which together accounted for two thirds of hospital admissions for heart attacks in Scotland. In the ten months leading up to the ban, there were 3,235 admissions, while in the matching period after the ban, there were 2,684.
Other studies have shown children's exposure to second-hand smoke has fallen, except among children whose mothers smoke, or those with two parents who smoke. Rates of heart disease are declining everywhere, but not as quickly.
Over the same period of ten months after the Scottish ban, admissions in England fell by 4 per cent, and the reduction rate in Scotland over the decade before the ban was 3 per cent per year.
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