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Source: Deaths from heart attacks drop - USATODAY.com

A sharp drop in heart attack deaths in more than a dozen countries coincides with global efforts to make sure patients receive proven treatments, doctors report today.

A study of 44,372 patients in the USA, Canada, Europe and South America from 1999 to 2006 found that deaths, heart failure and cardiogenic shock (when the heart goes into shock and loses pumping power) all declined in patients hospitalized for heart attacks or for life-threatening chest pain.

As the study unfolded, more doctors worldwide were adopting state-of-the-art approaches to therapy. For instance, in 1999, only one-third of heart attack patients were treated with angioplasty, though angioplasty cuts the risk of death by 40% more than the clot-busting drugs. By 2005, 64% of all heart attack patients received angioplasty, the researchers report in The Journal of the American Medical Association.

Hum, no mention of a smoking ban here? But hey, spin it any way that makes you feel better.

Source: http://www.davehitt.com/facts/banlinks.html

Effects of smoking ban

But business in May was down $32,000 from the year before, he said.

James Doolin says he's abiding by the smoking ban and he's lost 30% of his bingo customers as a result.

Mustie Hassan, 32, the owner of R Bar, Windmill Street, Gravesend, said: "It has completely killed business."

Takings at the community-based pub have fallen by around £1000 a week, or about 20 per cent, since the ban came into force a year ago.

Many of the bars participating have experienced large revenue drops since the ban was enacted, and now they say it is worth the fines to bring their customers back.

Lawyers for Colorado bar owners say the eight-week-old statewide smoking ban has devastated some smaller taverns, slashing their incomes by up to 80 percent.

I for one am glad Independence passed a no-smoking ordinance. Now I don't have to wait for a seat at my favorite eating place. I do miss my favorite waitress, who got laid off because of slow business, but what the heck, she probably didn't need the extra money to feed her kids or help with the rent. It also saves the city time by not counting so much sales tax money.