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Study: Smoking bans curb heart attack rates

New research suggests that cities that enact smoking bans in restaurants, bars and other public places curb heart attack rates as a result, online HealthDay reports.

Two studies published in separate journals incorporated data from 24 smoking-ban studies in cities in the United States, Canada and Europe.

Combining the studies showed that heart attacks dropped by at least 17 percent one...

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