GALWAY DOCTOR LEADS SMOKING BAN RESEARCH

Date Published: 18-May-2011

Emergency room admissions due to respiratory illness have dropped significantly following the nationwide workplace smoking ban.

Researchers including study leader and pulmonology resident at Galway University Hospitals, Dr. Imran Sulaiman, produced their research at a conference in Denver in the United States.

The study compared admissions prior to and after the smoking ban in 2004.