Press Release
Date: 10-16-09Name: Terri Guess Phone: 973-972-7265
Email: guesstp@umdnj.edu
UMDNJ Expert Available to Comment on Report Indicating Smoking Bans Reduce Heart Attacks and Disease
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NEWARK – For media covering a report by the Institute of Medicine that concludes that bans on smoking in places such as restaurants, offices and public buildings reduce cases of heart attack and heart disease, an expert at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey is available to comment.
Dr. Marc Klapholz is the director of the Division of Cardiology and a professor of medicine at UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, specializing in Cardiovascular Disease, Intervention Cardiology and Internal Medicine. He reminds us that much of a cigarette's smoke ends up in other peoples lungs from direct inhalation. "Cigarettes burn for at least 10 minutes and smokers are only inhaling 30 seconds to one minute, the rest of the smoke is just going into the ambient air," said Klapholz. "So, if others are nearby they are inhaling. It's not from the exhaled smoke of the smokers." Klapholz is one of 270 UMDNJ faculty members named to the list of “Top Doctors in New Jersey 2009” by Castle Connolly, a medical research firm that publishes annual lists of top practitioners in regions around the country.
Reporters interested in interviewing Dr. Klapholz should contact Terri Guess at 973-972-7265 or guesstp@umdnj.edu.
The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) is the nation’s largest free-standing public health sciences university with nearly 5,700 students attending the state's three medical schools, its only dental school, a graduate school of biomedical sciences, a school of health related professions, a school of nursing and its only school of public health on five campuses. Annually, there are more than two million patient visits at UMDNJ facilities and faculty practices at campuses in Newark, New Brunswick/Piscataway, Scotch Plains, Camden and Stratford. UMDNJ operates University Hospital, a Level I Trauma Center in Newark, and University Behavioral HealthCare, a statewide mental health and addiction services network.
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