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11/12/2008

Every year since Massachusetts legislators banned smoking in virtually all public places (restaurants, bars and workplaces), nearly 600 fewer residents have died of heart attacks. Enforcement of the statewide law, beginning in mid-2004, coincided with a further reduction. From 2003 to 2006, heart attack deaths in Massachusetts plummeted 30 percent, significantly accelerating what had been a more modest long-term decline.