Smoke-Free St. Louis City heart attack study discredited

A Scottish heart attack study put forward last month in support of a St. Louis public smoking ban by Smoke-Free St. Louis City has been discredited by Dr. Michael Siegel, a researcher at the Boston University School of Public Health.
http://smokefreestl.org/17-fall-in-hospital-admissions-for-heart-attacks-a-1.html
http://tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com/2008/09/new-data-from-scotland-show-that-pell.html

This debunking of what had been considered the strongest evidence of the health benefits of a smoking ban shows how flimsy the case for a St. Louis City smoking ban really is!