Tuesday
Jun082010
This could cause a heart attack
Tuesday, June 8, 2010 We have just been alerted to yet another study that links the smoking ban to a drop in hospital admissions for heart attacks. However the report is embargoed until tomorrow so you'll have to wait for both the result of the study and my response.
All I'll say is, how can they possibly draw such a definitive conclusion when heart attacks are multifactorial and - according to Chris Snowdon - emergency heart attack admissions were in decline before the introduction of the smoking ban.
With "research" like this I think I'm going to have a heart attack!
Reader Comments (6)
This will be the one which was reported as a 10% reduction by the Times? Before ASH dissassociated themselves from it as the study hadn't finished.
Bet it concludes around ... 10% ;-)
ASH.
10%.
They are so clever .
Obviously they are trying to trick us into thinking they are completely stupid.
I've beenfalling for it for years.
Of subject slightly but wothy of a glance
BBC Scotland, Would you believe it?
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Police chief blames alcohol for 14 murders
Page last updated at 14:06 GMT, Tuesday, 8 June 2010 15:06 UK
E-mail this to a friend Printable version Retailers have been urged to act responsibly with drinks promotions The head of Scotland's biggest police force has said alcohol played a major role in 14 murders in his area in the past 10 weeks.
Stephen House, the chief constable of Strathclyde Police, said that in many cases both the perpetrators and the victims were drunk.
The chief constable said a recent trend had seen violence associated with house parties rather than pubs.
He also said drink-fuelled violence could escalate during the World Cup.
Mr House revealed 14 out of 18 murders across Strathclyde since 1 April had been drink-related.
He told BBC Radio Scotland that an increasing trend of people buying cheap alcohol to drink at house parties rather than going to the pub was contributing to violent crime and anti-social behaviour.
He said: "We've seen a trend in the last few years of an increase in violence associated with drink parties and a move away from proper licensed premises.
In fact over the weekend just gone we had 31 serious assaults across Strathclyde, only two of those were actually in licensed premises.
"We are seeing that licensed premises are actually better run and safer places to be than these house parties that can get out of control and go on for hours."
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Whats plod trying to say ?
There is only ONE possible solution to McPlod's little problem, up there in the Sarajevo of the North:
The Prohibition of Alcohol - especially when people can obviously not be trusted to act 'responsibly' even in their own homes.
And while we're at it - let's ban parties, too.
In fact, any assembly of (say) more than six people for purely recreational purposes.
Ditto non-work-related car-driving.
After all, lives WOULD undoubtedly be saved - which is always THE most important thing.
Isn't it ?
Something MUST be done - if we are ever to return to the peaceful, hazard-free delights of Life as experienced by our ancestors in (say) the Dark Ages, the England of Hogarth, or mid-19th Century London.
" yet another study that links the smoking ban to a drop in hospital admissions for heart attacks...................."
Once again, an Obvious Solution presents itself:
Don't admit ANYONE who is, or has ever been a Smoker.
This would reduce the number of 'smoking-related heart-attack' admissions to (approximately) zero.
I can see the headline now:
"HOSPITAL BAN A TOTAL SUCCESS, SAYS HEALTH CHIEF".
Job done !
(All it takes is a little of the old Lateral Thinking).
Linking the disciminative dictatorship smoking ban to a so called drop in heart attacks is a joke, ASH and thier story telling health gurus would say anything to justify thier unjust smoking ban.