Emerging Scientific Consensus

Last month two separate meta-analyses concluded that heart attack admissions had dropped significantly following the implementation of smoke laws. Today, yet another review conducted by the Institute of Medicine reached the same conclusion.

"CONCLUSION

Data consistently demonstrates that secondhand-smoke exposure increases the risk of coronary heart disease and heart attacks and that smoking bans reduce heart attacks. Given the prevalence of heart attacks, and the resultant deaths, smoking bans save more than half a million lives each year in the U.S. alone. The savings, as mea- sured in human lives, is undeniable."