Not e-cigarette related except the justification used for smoking bans....a major reason some of us are here. Like the anti-smokers lie about the effects of shs, they will also lie about the effects of vaping. Dr. Siegel published this today.
New Study of National Heart Attack Admissions and Mortality Finds No Evidence of a Short-Term Effect of Smoking Bans
Most Definitive Study to Date Refutes Conclusions of Many Earlier Studies and Demonstrates Why These Studies Obtained Positive Findings
A new study by researchers from the RAND Corporation, Congressional Budget Office, University of Wisconsin, and Stanford University is the first to examine the relationship between smoking bans and heart attack admissions and mortality trends in the entire nation, using national data. All previous U.S. studies only examined one particular city. In contrast, this study examined data from the Nationwide Inpatient Survey (NIS), which is nationally representative and includes 20% of all non-federal hospital discharges in the United States. The study has been published as Working Paper 14789 of the National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series.
Study citation: Shetty KD, DeLeire T, White C, Bhattacharya J. Changes in U.S. hospitalization and mortality rates following smoking bans. Working Paper 14790. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009. The study is copyright 2009 by Kanaka D. Shetty, Thomas DeLeire, Chapin White, and Jayanta Bhattacharya.
The key conclusions of the study are as follows:
1. "In contrast with smaller regional studies, we find that workplace bans are not associated with
statistically significant short-term declines in mortality or hospital admissions for myocardial infarction or other diseases."
2. "An analysis simulating smaller studies using subsamples reveals that large short-term
increases in myocardial infarction incidence following a workplace ban are as common as the large decreases reported in the published literature."
The study uses state and local workplace smoking ordinance data from the American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation tobacco control database for the years 1990 through 2004 and national data on heart attack admissions and mortality from the National Inpatient Survey (1993-2004), as well as from the Multiple Cause of Death database (1989-2004). Using a fixed effects regression model, the authors analyze outcomes (heart attack admissions and mortality) before and after the implementation of all workplace smoking bans in the nation, as identified in the ANR database.
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New Study of National Heart Attack Admissions and Mortality Finds No Evidence of a Short-Term Effect of Smoking Bans
Most Definitive Study to Date Refutes Conclusions of Many Earlier Studies and Demonstrates Why These Studies Obtained Positive Findings
A new study by researchers from the RAND Corporation, Congressional Budget Office, University of Wisconsin, and Stanford University is the first to examine the relationship between smoking bans and heart attack admissions and mortality trends in the entire nation, using national data. All previous U.S. studies only examined one particular city. In contrast, this study examined data from the Nationwide Inpatient Survey (NIS), which is nationally representative and includes 20% of all non-federal hospital discharges in the United States. The study has been published as Working Paper 14789 of the National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series.
Study citation: Shetty KD, DeLeire T, White C, Bhattacharya J. Changes in U.S. hospitalization and mortality rates following smoking bans. Working Paper 14790. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research, 2009. The study is copyright 2009 by Kanaka D. Shetty, Thomas DeLeire, Chapin White, and Jayanta Bhattacharya.
The key conclusions of the study are as follows:
1. "In contrast with smaller regional studies, we find that workplace bans are not associated with
statistically significant short-term declines in mortality or hospital admissions for myocardial infarction or other diseases."
2. "An analysis simulating smaller studies using subsamples reveals that large short-term
increases in myocardial infarction incidence following a workplace ban are as common as the large decreases reported in the published literature."
The study uses state and local workplace smoking ordinance data from the American Nonsmokers' Rights Foundation tobacco control database for the years 1990 through 2004 and national data on heart attack admissions and mortality from the National Inpatient Survey (1993-2004), as well as from the Multiple Cause of Death database (1989-2004). Using a fixed effects regression model, the authors analyze outcomes (heart attack admissions and mortality) before and after the implementation of all workplace smoking bans in the nation, as identified in the ANR database.
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