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39 pages found in Effects: 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 How Smoking Affects The Way You Look
ASH-UK factsheet covers how smoking affects the skin, body shape, and weight.
http://oldash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact10.html InfoFries Science Central: The Health Effects of Smoking
A Flash presentation on the health effects of smoking. Includes relevant pictures and facts.
http://www.geocities.com/infofries/science/smoking.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 Just the Facts
Very short factsheet on health effects of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
http://www.in.gov/isdh/programs/tobacco/adults.htm 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
Short description by a doctor of the effects of smoking on health and quality of life.
http://www.tfn.net/HealthGazette/smoke.html 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 visioin.
http://www.mdsupport.org/library/nosmoke.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.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/54/8/566 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: 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 Surgeon General's Report 2004 - The Health Consequences of Smoking
Latest report finds that cigarettes and tobacco products cause more diseases than previously known; site features database of 1600 key scientific articles and interactive animation based on the latest findings that outlines the effects of smoking on different organs of the body.
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_2004/index.htm 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 Tobacco Use: United States, 1900-1999
From the Cancer Network, a survey of smoking trends and their effects during the 20th century.
http://www.cancernetwork.com/journals/oncology/o9912d.htm WebMD: Smoking Cessation
Effects of cigarettes and other tobacco products. Some tips for quitting.
http://my.webmd.com/medical_information/condition_centers/smoking_cessation/default.htm webmd.com - Yet Another Reason to Put That Cigarette Down
Cigarettes are the leading cause of an infection that can cause severe pneumonia or meningitis.
http://my.webmd.com/content/article/22/1728_55546 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 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. <small>(March 13, 2002)</small>
http://www.femail.co.uk/pages/standard/article.html?in_article_id=104616&in_page_id=179 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's story. <small>(June 15, 1999)</small>
http://www.sptimes.com/News/61599/Floridian/He_wanted_you_to_know.shtml
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