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PUEBLO, Colo.—A study links Pueblo’s 2003 smoking ban to a 40 percent drop in heart attack hospitalizations.
Researchers found there were 399 hospital admissions for heart attacks in the city in the 18 months before the city’s smoking ban took effect July 1, 2003. In the similar period from 18 months to three years after the ban, there were 237 heart attack hospitalizations.
Researchers found that heart attack hospitalizations in the areas surrounding the city and in nearby Colorado Springs remained about the same over the same periods.
The findings are in the Jan. 2 issue of the Centers for Disease Control’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.
