The CDC conducted a study of the effects of the tax increase combined with the antismoking campaign on the prevalence of smoking among adults in Massachusetts (Harris JE, Cigarette Smoking Before and After an Excise Tax Increase and Antismoking Campaign -- Massachusetts, 1990-1996 , Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, 45:966-70 (November 8, 1996), attachment 1)
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smoking bans were associated with short-term reductions in hospital admissions for acute myocardial infarction or other diseases in the elderly, children or working age adults. A 2012 study of six American states that had instituted smoking bans came to a similar conclusion
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