Smoking ban leads to big drop in heart attacks
A smoking ban in one Colorado city led to a dramatic drop in heart attack hospitalizations within three years, a sign of just how serious a health threat secondhand smoke is, government researchers said Wednesday. The study, the longest-running of its kind, showed the rate of hospitalized cases dropped 41 percent in the three years after the ban of workplace smoking in Pueblo, Colo., took effect. There was no such drop in two neighboring areas, and researchers believe it’s a clear sign the ban was responsible.
via Smoking ban leads to big drop in heart attacks – Heart health- msnbc.com.
While I am opposed to most intrusions of government into our lives, that we live collectively necessitates some surrender of the freedoms we hold dear. For example, smoking. I would like to say, Do what you will, be merry, but I know that in the end, you will come back to me and say, I need medical care, the kind I can in no way pay on my own. Thus, your freedom becomes my bondage. So, if banning smoking reduces heart attacks, then for the good of society, I say ban it. I do not say we should ban all things — we are, after all, living in a democracy — we are more intelligent than that. We can decide these things on a case-by-case basis.
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