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Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2010, 7, 4169-4178; doi:10.3390/ijerph7124169 OPEN ACCESS International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ISSN 1660-4601 /journal/ijerph Article The Impact of the 2002 Delaware Smoking Ordinance on Heart Attack and Asthma John Moraros 1,*, Yelena Bird 1, Shande Chen 2, Robert Buckingham 1, Richard S. Meltzer 1, 1 1 Surasri Prapasiri and Luis H. Solis 1 School of Public Health, University of Saskatchewan, 107 Wiggins Road, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, S7N 5E5, Canada; E-Mails: yelena.bird@usask.ca (Y.B.); b.buckingham@usask.ca (R.B.); meltzer@ (R.S.M.); surasri@ (S.P.); luisolis@ (L.H.S.) 2 Department of Biostatistics, University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, 3500 Camp Bowie Blvd., Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA; E-Mail: chande.chen@ * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: john.moraros@usask.ca; Tel.: +1-306-966-8578; Fax: +1-306-966-7920. Received: 1 November 2010; in revised form: 23 November 2010 / Accepted: 29 November 2010 / Published: 2 December 2010 Abstract: In the United States, smoking is the leading cause of death - having a mortality rate of approximately 435,000 people in 2000—accounting for 8.1% of all US deaths recorded that year. Consequently, we analyzed the Delaware Hospital Discharge Database,