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Intro: The Irish Heart Foundation has welcomed new figures from France and Italy showing reductions in heart attacks since the introduction of smoking bans in these countries.
The latest figures from the European Society for Cardiology (ESC) show a 15% fall in emergency admissions for heart attacks and strokes in France, following the public smoking ban in 2007.
Italy has recorded a 11.2% reduction in the number of acute coronary events since the introduction of its smoking ban in January 2005.
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