Friday, 19 April 2013

Annual 5 Percent Drop in Emergency Admissions for Asthma Linked To England's Smoking Ban

They say that this adds up to around 1900 fewer such admissions every year, the authors calculate, and confirms the value of public health interventions, such as smoking bans. They base their findings on the number of emergency admissions for asthma among adults aged 16 and over in England between April 1997 and December 2010. Smoking in all public places was banned in July 2007 in England, where the prevalence of asthma is one of the highest in the ...

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