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You have a friend who always says, "You cannot legislate healthy living." You think that this is not true and point to the relationship between state-wide smoking bans and rates of heart attacks as evidence. After a state or country bans smoking in public places, rates of heart attacks decline by what percentage within the first year after the ban

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Answer: 50%, so you are correct, legislation can lead to significant positive health outcomes.

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The average rate of heart attacks had dropped by 17 percent, and continued to drop more over time.

Explanation:

Public smoking bans seem to be tremendously effective in reducing heart attack and, theoretically, might also help to prevent lung cancer and emphysema, diseases that develop much more slowly than heart attacks. Direct smoking doubles the risk of heart attack. Second hand smoke increases the risk by 30 percent.