Colorado county law likely reduced illness from secondhand smoke, study suggests

MONDAY, Aug. 5 (HealthDay News) — Ambulance calls to casinos in Gilpin County, Colo., fell about 20 percent after smoking was banned, a new study finds.

The decline mirrored a drop in ambulance calls to public locations two years earlier when the state banned smoking everywhere except in casinos, according to the authors of the study appearing Aug. 5 in the journal Circulation.

The researchers said the smoking ban imposed on casinos likely limited nonsmokers’ exposure to secondhand smoke and may have motivated some smokers to quit. [Read more…]