On the positive side of the smoking bans, the number of cardiac arrest cases has seen a sharp decline since smoking in public places was banned in the UK.
Some hospitals have seen the number of cases nearly halved with some of them reporting a decline of about 41% since the ban was brought into effect in July. Scotland, Ireland, France and Italy have also seen similar trends.
Many people are saying that the cause for this change is that many people have quit smoking, and a smaller number of people are smoking passively through exposure to smoke.
It is too early to get excited though, the Department of Health said this is, "good news" but went on to say that it is early days to give the smoke ban credit for the fall in heart attack rate. It is not only smokers that get heart attacks and very unlikely that half of the smoking population has quit smoking.
[Via: The Hindu]
