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Giving up smoking reduces chances of heart attack 

Stating that chances of a heart attack was reduced by almost 50 per cent within 24 hours after one quits smoking, the Delhi Medical Association on Thursday sought tough laws to prevent smoking in public places and advertisements promoting it on television.

Smoking doubled the risk of heart attack and a smoker heart patient died 15 years earlier than a non-smoker heart patient, Dr Anil Bansal, DMA president, told reporters on the eve of the 'World No Tobacco Day' on May 31.

Stating that most deaths in India occurred due to cancer, heart attack or paralysis, Bansal said that all of the three diseases to a large extent were tobacco-related. Tobacco cessation was the only answer in making a healthy society, he added.

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