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GILPIN COUNTY, Colo. — Ambulance calls to Colorado casinos dropped 20 percent after a statewide public smoking ban was toughened to include the gambling palaces, according to a new study from researchers at the University of California San Francisco.
Public health advocates will take the new study as further proof that smoking bans do their important job well: cutting illness and saving lives, over and above objections from civil libertarians about government regulation.
The research reinforces previous looks at ambulance calls where smoking had been banned earlier, including restaurants and workplaces. Colorado’s stair-step bans provided a perfect laboratory to isolate casinos as another factor in the war on tobacco.
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