Answer:Public smoking bans appear to significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks, particularly among younger individuals and nonsmokers, according to a new study. Researchers find that smoking bans can reduce the number of heart attacks by as much as 26 percent per year.
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The "scarce" bit is the three chapters, which is a tiny portion of the book. So the modifier "scarcely" needs to go directly before the words it modifies.
Philip had read scarcely three chapters.....
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If, for example, the situation was that Philip just glanced at the book, you could say "Philip had scarcely looked at the book when he found out...."
