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...continuous drop in heart attack fatalities in Massachusetts can be traced to the state’s 2004 ban of smoking in public places, according to a report released Thursday by the Harvard School of Public Health and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health...
Researchers evaluated death certificates from 1999 to 2006 and found that the yearly decrease in heart attack deaths has averaged to 577 since the ban was implemented. The number of deaths from heart attack per year decreased by 16 percent overall from...
Schwartz also said he was not surprised to see changes in public health occur within two years of the implementation of the ban. “Cardiovascular death rates have been falling for a whole host of reasons. If you implement a policy and you implement it relatively suddenly, then the change would happen fast,” he said...
Cities with weak or no laws, such as Worcester, saw dramatic shifts in public health after the implementation of the statewide ban. By the end of 2006, there was virtually no difference in rates of heart attack fatality throughout the state...
Waiving colorful signs declaring “Love, not H8,” dozens of Harvard students joined roughly 4,000 people gathered in front of Boston City Hall Saturday to protest the recent passing of Proposition 8, a ban on same-sex marriage approved by California voters two weeks ago. The Boston rally was part of a national effort of protests on Saturday led by LBGTQ rights group Join the Impact in opposition to the ban. Although few Harvard students at the weekend rally were native Californians—and many were international students—participants said Proposition...