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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...
This change comes hand-in-hand with a 15 to 20 percent decrease in hospitalization for heart attacks statewide...
...look at the biggest decline in heart disease deaths in Massachusetts overall, you see a kink in 2004. It’s not a general [phenomenon]—something happened in 2004,” said Joel Schwartz, an HSPH and Harvard Medical School professor who was involved in research for the study...
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...