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One of them is Singapore, which, from 2013 to 2017, brought in a strict no-smoking policy in public places. A team of researchers wanted to assess the impact that the Singapore legislation has had on heart attack rates. The researchers analyzed monthly reports from the Singapore Myocardial Infarction Registry from January 2010 to December 2019.noted that after Singapore extended the no-smoking restriction in 2013 to more public places, the rate of heart attacks fell.
The study also noted that the elderly populations and men benefitted from the expansion of the smoke-free legislation the most. However, the latest study also noted that subsequent extensions of the legislation after 2013 weren’t associated with a fall in the monthly heart attack rate after 2016. The study also says that although there was no significant decline in cases of heart attack after the 2017 legislation, the average decline in rates occurred across all age groups and in both sexes.
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