Revista española de cardiología (English ed.)
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Rev Esp Cardiol (Engl Ed) · Sep 2018
Multicenter StudyImpact of 2 Successive Smoking Bans on Hospital Admissions for Cardiovascular Diseases in Spain.
To evaluate the impact of 2 smoking bans enacted in 2006 (partial ban) and 2011 (comprehensive ban) on hospitalizations for cardiovascular disease in the Spanish adult population. ⋯ In Spain, smoking bans failed to significantly reduce hospitalizations for AMI, IHD, or CVD among patients ≥ 18 years of age. In the population aged ≥ 65 years, hospital admissions due to these diseases showed significant decreases immediately after the implementation of the comprehensive ban, but these reductions disappeared at the 1-year evaluation.