Where there's smoke...
What with all those candidate and issue kisses of death endorsements to get in the newspaper, this eddie about new research on the dangers of second-hand smoke had to wait its turn.
- Smoking laws saving lives
Where there’s smoke, there are heart attacks.
That’s the conclusion of a report released recently by the independent Institute of Medicine. Its experts studied the conclusions of many other reports and determined that bans on smoking in restaurants, bars and workplaces often lead to significant declines in the number of heart attacks.
This data should push those jurisdictions still wondering whether they should ban smoking in public places in the direction of doing so. In New York, where comprehensive smoking limits have been in place for six years, the report goes firmly in the I Told You So File.
Here's the AP article. Here's the study. Here are the concurring opinions from The Wichita Eagle and The Birmingham News and a dissent from The Republican-American in Waterbury, Conn.
-- George Pyle/The Buffalo News
