Smoking Bans Work...?

[GarMan]

You just wait until they ban soda, fried foods, chocolate, alcohol, beef, salt, sugar, french fries and onion rings.  We'll all be so much better and happier. 

http://health.msn.com/health-topics/addiction/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100212264&GT1=31033

Public Smoking Bans Work Across the Board
Study finds hospital admissions for acute coronary syndrome down for smokers, nonsmokers
-- Robert Preidt

WEDNESDAY, July 30 (HealthDay News) -- After a ban on smoking in all enclosed public places was introduced in Scotland in March 2006, there was a 17 percent reduction in hospital admissions for acute coronary syndrome, says a new study that provides further proof that smoke-free laws provide health benefits.

Researchers found the number of admissions in the 10 months after the ban was 2,684, compared with 3,235 in the 10 months before the ban. Nonsmokers accounted for 67 percent of the decrease. There was a 14 percent reduction in admissions among smokers, a 19 percent reduction among former smokers, and a 21 percent reduction among people who'd never smoked.

The study also found that people who'd never smoked reported a decrease in their weekly amount of exposure to secondhand smoke.
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[Tarheel]

This study is just another example of junk-science.  I'd like to read the science behind this meaningless drivel fancied up with psuedo-medical science window-dressings!  Basically this is just another gussied-up, fallacious argument.  Correlation does not imply causation.

Quite frankly I've read studies that clearly demonstrate that the decrease in pirates are the cause of anthropomorphic global warming because the number of pirates have gone down during the same time frame that supposed global mean temperatures have increased!  (See graph 1 below)

Similarly, I've also read studies that show that crime is caused by increased carbon dioxide levels; crime has supposedly increased since the 50's and, eerily, so has carbon dioxide!  OR is increased crime causing an increase in carbon dioxide levels?  Maybe increased crime is the cause anthropomorphic global warming?

This article continues with the further great scientific statement:

The study also found that people who'd never smoked reported a decrease in their weekly amount of exposure to secondhand smoke.

Such profundity!  I am astonished!

Further...

Previous studies have suggested that banning smoking in public places reduced hospital admissions for acute coronary syndrome, but it wasn't clear whether the reduction involved nonsmokers, smokers or both.

Really!?  What's the difference between this "study" and the previous "study"?

Well...get ready, GarMan is correct, this rationale will be used to further curtail our freedoms.