Declines in Hospital Admissions for Acute Myocardial Infarction in New York State After Implementation of a Comprehensive Smoking Ban
Harlan R. Juster, PhD,
Brett R. Loomis, MS,
Theresa M. Hinman, MPH,
Matthew C. Farrelly, PhD,
Andrew Hyland, PhD,
Ursula E. Bauer, PhD, MPH and
Guthrie S. Birkhead, MD, MPH
Harlan R. Juster, Theresa M. Hinman, and Ursula E. Bauer are with the New York State Department of Health, Albany. Brett R. Loomis and Matthew C. Farrelly are with RTI International, Research Triangle Park, NC. Andrew Hyland is with Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, NY. Guthrie S. Birkhead is with the New York State Department of Health, Albany, and the University at Albany, School of Public Health, Rensselaer, NY.
FIGURE 1——Observed number of hospital admissions for acute myocardial infarction and predicted number of hospital admissions in the absence of a comprehensive smoking ban, by month: New York State, 2002–2004.