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No doubt about it: smokefree laws cut heart attacks in big way

  • Written by Stanton Glantz, Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
imageA no smoking sign in London. Via Flickr.kafka4prez/flickr, CC BY-SA

There is strong and consistent evidence that exposure to secondhand smoke causes heart attacks and that smokefree workplace and public place laws cut heart attacks (and other diseases). The most recent evidence comes from a large study in Sao Paolo, Brazil, where heart attack...

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