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Critics Say Smoking Ban Study Inconclusive

Mike Mitka

JAMA. 2004;291:2690.

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People at risk of heart disease should avoid secondhand smoke because it increases the risk of acute myocardial infarction (MI), the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) warns in a commentary in the April 24 issue of the British Medical Journal (BMJ. 2004;328:980-983).

The warning accompanied a study concluding that smoking bans at work and in public places may be associated with reducing morbidity from heart disease (BMJ. 2004;328:977-983).

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The study found that during a 6-month ban on smoking in work and public places in Helena, Mont, in 2002, admissions for acute MI to the only hospital in the isolated community of 68 140 decreased from 40 (the average number occurring during the same months in the previous 4 years) to 24. At the same time, while Helena restricted public smoking, the sparsely populated region surrounding the community did not. . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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