Yet another smoking ban miracle

[5150sick]

http://velvetgloveironfist.blogspot.co.uk/2015/05/yet-another-smoking-ban-miracle.html



Almost 90,000 children spared illness by smoking ban: 11,000 fewer a year admitted to hospital with lung infections since law was introduced


The number of admissions between 2003/04 and 2012/13 were as follows:


2003/04: 31,353
2004/05: 31,702
2005/06: 36,819
2006/07: 32,344
2007/08: 33,924
2008/09: 36,170
2009/10: 39,148
2010/11: 42,857
2011/12: 40,053
2012/13: 43,895

The reality is, then, that there were 36 per cent more admissions in 2012/13 than there were in the year before the smoking ban.

 

[Neunerball]

That's the problem about statistics. They can be manipulated to reflect the results you want to see/show, e.g. leaving the 15 year old out of the data.