Italian public smoking ban leads to fall in hospital heart attack admissions in under 60s

From the European Society for Cardiology: Hospital admissions for acute heart attack in people under 60 fell by 11% in the Piedmont region of Italy in the five months after the introduction of a ban on smoking in indoor public places compared with admissions for the same period in the previous year.
Importantly, nearly all of the fall was probably due to reductions in exposure to passive smoking, the researchers, from the University of Turin, concluded.
Their results, published in the latest on line edition of European Heart Journal (1), today (Tuesday, 3 October) add more evidence to studies supporting the effectiveness of smoking regulations, according to the authors of an accompanying editorial