Anna Gilmore

Leakegate: "not based on any research"

User Image tlambert | February 21, 2010
Last September Jonathan Leake wrote a story Heart attacks plummet after smoking ban in which he stated: The ban on public smoking has caused a fall in heart attack rates of about 10%, a study has found. ... The research into heart attack rates in England is being led by Anna Gilmore of Bath University. "There is already overwhelming evidence that reducing people's exposure to cigarette smoke reduces hospital admissions due to heart attacks," she said. Gilmore's research is incomplete and she emphasises the final results for England will not be published for several months. Action on…