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Jump to full article: Greenwood (MS) Commonwealth, 2009-10-27
Intro: Greenwood's ban on smoking in restaurants and bars is being vindicated by yet another scientific study.
A recent report from the Institute of Medicine found that in locales around the world where smoking bans have been enacted, the number of heart attacks has dropped by 6 percent to 47 percent.
The report underlines what the U.S. surgeon general warned of in 2006: There's really no safe level of exposure to secondhand smoke.
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