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September 23, 2009

WSJ, SF Chronicle features new UCSF research on smoking bans

The Wall Street Journal featured a new UCSF study in a September 21 story titled, “The Case for Bans on Smoking,” based on research that appeared the same day in Circulation that found heart attack rates drop by 26 percent in the three years following public smoking bans. The story includes a comment from UCSF professor Steven Schroeder, MD, who was not involved in the research, and cites Jim Lightwood, PhD, from the UCSF School of Pharmacy, who conducted the meta-analysis with Stanton Glantz, PhD. Circulation is the official journal of the American Heart Association. The research was widely covered, including a story on the new San Francisco Chronicle health blog, titled ChronRx.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203803904574426921442513660.html

http://www2.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/chronrx/detail?blogid=160&entry_id=48119