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» Health Effects of Active Smoking
Complete book chapter on health effects of cigarettes. http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/fandi/c03.htm » Smoking Statistics: Illness and Death
Concise factsheet from ASH-UK boils it all down: what cigarettes do to the customer. http://oldash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact02.html Sites:
» All about tobacco facts, smoking cancer, epidemiology and quitting
The facts on tobacco products and cancer of the larynx, lung, and mouth, emphysema, epidemology, and how to quit; information and graphic pictures from a Kentucky physician. http://www.tobacco-facts.info » BBC News: Grim toll of smoking
More than 122,000 British smokers will die prematurely in the year 2000 from a smoking-related disease; article explains. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/536633.stm » Cigarette Anyone?
Firsthand accounts of what it is like to live with the diseases caused by cigarettes. http://www.emphysema.net/my.html » Cigarette Smoking-Attributable Morbidity --- United States, 2000
Most reports focus on how many people are killed by tobacco products; this report estimates how much disease cigarettes cause: tobacco products give more than 8.6 million Americans serious diseases every year. http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5235a4.htm » Diagnose-Me: Conditions: Cigarette Smoke Damage
Lists diseases caused by tobacco propducts, and provides a brief description of each. http://www.diagnose-me.com/cond/C211471.html » Does Tobacco Use Cause Other (non-malignant) Disease?
Tobacco use actually claims more lives via tobacco-caused diseases other than cancer. http://smokinglungs.com/otherdis.htm » Facts About Nicotine and Tobacco Products
From NIH, brief presentation of effects of nicotine and tobacco products. http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA_Notes/NNVol13N3/tearoff.html » Fire Injuries, Disasters, and Costs from Cigarettes and Cigarette Lights fires
Scientific paper estimates the injuries, deaths, and costs from smoking-attributable files. http://epm-leistikow.ucdavis.edu/SMOKINGFIRES.HTM » He Wanted You to Know
Article from the St. Petersburg Times, Florida. Bryan Curtis started smoking at 13, never thinking that 20 years later cigarettes would kill him and leave his wife and children alone. Half of all tobacco deaths are people aged 35 to 69; this is one person http://www.sptimes.com/News/61599/Floridian/He_wanted_you_to_know.shtml » Mortality Attributable to Tobacco Use in Canada, 1994 and 1996
Using data from the National Population Health Survey and the Canadian Mortality Database, estimates national and regional smoking-attributable deaths for 1994 and 1996. http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/cdic-mcc/20-3/b_e.html » Mortality from Smoking in Developed Countries 1950-2000
Latest edition of massive tome; content in PDF format. http://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/~tobacco/ » Other Health Problems
From cataracts to diabetes, from osteoporosis to skin disorders, the other health effects of tobacco products. http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter11/table_of_contents_chap11.html » Premature Skin Wrinkling And Cigarette Smoking
Recent research on how tobacco products cause face wrinkles in young people. http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/news/8525697700573E1885256B8400646C83 » Risks of Dying From Smoking
Slide presentation outlines individual risks, social trends. http://www1.worldbank.org/tobacco/Presentations/Presentation1/slide1.htm » Smokers Get Ill Sooner, Study Says
Statistics Canada analysis shows that cigarettes and tobacco products not only kill the customer, they also cause debilitating illnesses along the way, such as bronchitis, asthma and high blood pressure. http://no-smoking.org/june01/06-25-01-4.html » Smoking Caused Disability
Smoking not only shortens life, it increases number of years of disability. This research analysis estimates how much increased disability is caused by smoking. http://jech.bmj.com/content/54/8/566.full » Smoking Cessation Health Center
Discussion, graphics, and analysis of tobacco use, disease, and death. http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/default.htm » Smoking Deaths Not Overstated, Re-Analysis Shows
Refuting claims by the tobacco industry that death estimates from smoking are inflated, the American Medical Association re-analyzes the data. http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/284/6/706 » Smoking Increases Anxiety
Smoking is supposed to calm the nerves, but researchers have found evidence that it might have the opposite effect. BBS News article on recent research. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1010221.stm » Smoking and Diabetes
Facts from the American Diabetes Association. http://www.diabetes.org/type-1-diabetes/smoking.jsp » Smoking can Lead to Blindness
Smoking and macular degeneration, cataracts, loss of hearing, and loss of night vision. http://www.mdsupport.org/library/nosmoke.html » Smoking: The Health Effects
Smokers in their 30s and 40s are five times more likely to have a heart attack than non-smokers. Half of all smoking deaths are in middle age. Article from the BBC news summarizes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/medical_notes/473673.stm » Spinal cord injury: Smoking and SCI
For SCI survivors who smoke there's even more bad news and more ill health effects than general population. http://www.spinalinjury.net/html/_smoking_and_sci.html » The Irreversible Health Effects of Cigarettes
Pamphlet from ACSH. Quitting greatly reduces risks, but some effects of smoking are permanent. http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.377/pub_detail.asp » The Whole Truth About Smoking
New research find that the tobacco industry does a good job in deceiving the public about the full health risks of smoking; a rundown of 6 myths about smoking and the facts. http://www.femail.co.uk/pages/standard/article.html?in_article_id=104616&in_page_id=179 » Tobacco BBS Health Information Page
Annotated collection of links on health effects of firsthand and secondhand smoking, spit tobacco, quitting. http://www.tobacco.org/resources/health/ » Tobacco Mortality
Factsheet; all sources cited. http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter3/Chap3MORTALITY.html » Tobacco or Health: The Consequences of Tobacco Use
Summary of health effects, costs, effects on environment, with focus on Canada. http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-28813-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html » Where There's Smoking, There's Fire
One-third of all fatal household fires in Massachusetts began with a cigarette according this MASSPIRG report. Features map of 1500 cigarette-related fires and assesses the cost. http://masspirg.org/MA.asp?id2=4241&id3=MA » World Tobacco Victims Memorial
A memorial devoted to victims of tobacco products. http://www.tobaccovictims.org » Worldwide Trends in Tobacco Consumption and Mortality
WHO report outlines effects of tobacco globally, identifies trends. http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/tobacco/who-tobacco.htm This category needs an editor
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