Jump to full article: Daily Record and Sunday Mail (uk), 2009-09-22
Author: Donna Watson
Intro: SMOKING bans can cut the number of heart attacks by more than a third, two major studies have found.
The research suggests many thousands of lives will already have been saved by stopping people smoking in public places.
Professor David Meyers, who led one of the studies, said: "Public smoking bans seem to be tremendously effective in reducing heart attack and, theoretically, might also help to prevent lung cancer and emphysema.
"The cardiac benefits increased with longer ban duration."
It was claimed this month that heart attack rates fell by about 10 per cent in England in the year after the smoking ban was introduced in July 2007.
Separate research showed a 14 per cent fall in heart attack numbers in Scotland, where a ban was imposed a year earlier.
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