What the Research Studies on Smoking Ban Statistics Revealed?
• The present conclusions were arrived at after analyzing data collected from 13 states which did not have a law to ban smoking in public places. • Researchers shared a similar experience of their study on smoking ban in 2008 when 12 percent decline was observed in heart patient’s hospitalization in Michigan state, within one year of its implementation of smoking ban. • Earlier studies on this subject had revealed that the risk of heart ailments can be reduced by 11 percent when the ban is implemented on a larger scale. • In May 2010, two researchers from the University of Arizona reported that smoking ban in their state in 2007 has lead to decline in the hospitalization cases owing to stroke, asthma, angina (heart pain) and acute myocardial infarction (AMI). • Health costs were reported in the study to reduce by $16 million within the first one year of implementation of the ban. • Statistically, hospital admissions for stroke reduced by 14 percent, asthma by 22 percent, angina by 33 p
