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Recent research finds cigarettes cause faster mental decline as smokers get older.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8122-1047196,00.html
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Smoking and Reproductive Life
70 page medical report finds that smoking causes impotence, infertility, miscarriages, and birth
defects.
http://www.bma.org.uk/ap.nsf/Content/SmokingReproductiveLife
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Stroke Risk Increases With Every Cigarette Smoked
Recent research finds that cigarettes cause all three kinds of stroke, and the more cigarettes, the
more strokes.
http://www.brighamandwomens.org/publicaffairs/news/smoking_and_stroke.asp
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Smoking and Stroke: A Caustive Role
All tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars, and pipes, cause stroke.
http://www.differentstrokes.co.uk/smoking.htm
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Cigarettes and Asbestos
A short summary of the facts. Site is run by attorneys.
http://bg-law.com/cigarettes.htm
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Just the Facts
Very short factsheet on health effects of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
http://www.state.in.us/isdh/programs/tobacco/adults.htm
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Health Effects On the Unborn Baby
Concise summary of effects of firsthand and secondhand exposure to tobacco products on the unborn.
http://www.state.in.us/isdh/programs/tobacco/unborn.htm
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NCI: What You Need To Know About Lung Cancer
Pamphlet format. Covers the disease, who's at risk, recognizing symptoms, diagnosing lung cancer,
the stages of the disease, treatment, side effects.
http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinfo/wyntk/lung
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Oralcancerfoundation.org - The Tobacco Connection
Discusses how certain tobacco products greatly increase risks of contracting oral cancer.
http://www.oralcancerfoundation.org/tobacco/
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Smoking and Diabetes
Facts from the American Diabetes Association.
http://www.diabetes.org/health/body_care/smoking/default.jsp
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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.
http://www.sptimes.com:80/News/61599/Floridian/He_wanted_you_to_know.shtml
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Dying of Cancer, She Used Her Last Days to Warn Kids
At age 42, Barb Tarbox used her last few months of life to go on a speaking tour of Canada schools,
to tell them what it's like to be dying of cancer caused by cigarettes.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/obit/tarbox_barb/
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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
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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
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American Cancer Society - Cancer Statistics
Facts and figures, available in pdf format.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/stt/stt_0.asp
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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
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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
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Mortality from Smoking in Developed Countries 1950-2000
Latest edition of massive tome; content in PDF format.
http://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/~tobacco/
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Smoking and Breast Cancer
Recent research shows an association between smoking and breast cancer.
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7359/298/d
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Smoking Increase Risk of Alzheimer's Disease
Recent research finds that tobacco products increase Alzheimer's disease on some populations, but
have no effect on other populations.
http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/news/8525697700573E1885256C010043BDDC?OpenDocument&....
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Smoking May Be a Cause of Some Psychiatric Disorders
New studies suggest that cigarettes are a cause of some psychiatric disorders, including common
conditions such as depression and anxiety.
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/health_and_fitness/article/0,1406,KNS_310_1210969,00.html
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Tobacco May Be a Cause of Mental Illness
Article summarizes increasing evidence from larger research studies that tobacco products cause
anxiety, depression, phobias, and alcohol and drug dependence.
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=TO&Date=20020520&Category=COLUMNI....
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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
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Fetal Nicotine or Cocaine Exposure: Which one is Worse?
Although public and medical attention focuses on fetal cocaine exposure, the epidemiological
evidence suggests fetal nicotine exposure does more damage.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=96183....
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The Hurt Never Goes Away
Over 400,000 Americans die each year due to tobacco use. COST has provided a way for the survivors
to express themselves, share their pain.
http://www.costkids.org/tobacco/tobacco/tobaccoframeset.htm
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HOT Program
Hazards of Tobacco (HOT) video; requires RealPayer. Features speakers who've undergone surgical
removal of their larynxes, who demonstrate one of tobacco's effects.
http://www.karmanos.org/we/infoed/hot/
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Paternal Smoking and Cancer among Children of Nonsmoking Mothers
Scientific paper finds paternal smoking before conception increases risk of the children getting
cancer, particularly acute leukemia and lymphoma.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=9017004&....
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American Heart Association: Cigarette Smoking And Cardiovascular Diseases
Cigarettes are the most important preventable cause of premature death in the United State. Most
of those deaths are from heart disease, not cancer. The facts from the AHA.
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4545
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Tobacco, Colorectal Cancer, and Adenomas the evidence.
Another cancer now known to be caused by smoking.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=8944002&....
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Smoking Increases Skin Cancer Risk
Tobacco products triple the risk of developing a common form of skin cancer, according to a new
study.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000820928759152&rtmo=VDJSM8fK&atmo=99999999&pg=....
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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
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The Connection Between Smoking and Heart Disease
What cigarettes and other tobacco products do to the heart and arteries; how they cause
hypertension, stroke, and heart disease.
http://www.heartinfo.com/search/display.asp?Id=256&header=T_know.gif&caller=
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Montana: Deaths Up from Lung Cancer
Doctor reports "it's just a relentless stream of incurable cancers" resulting from a
surge in smoking by women during the 1970s.
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2002/12/13/build/local/68-smo....
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Smoking May Lead to Anxiety Disorders in Adolescents and Young Adults
Recent research shows that tobacco products may cause anxiety, panic attacks and fear of leaving
home.
http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA_Notes/NNVol16N1/Smoking.html
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Nicotine Addiction Can Start Within A Few Days And After Just A Few Cigarettes
Recent research shows that cigarette products cause addiction much faster than was previously
believed, in just a few doses.
http://www.cfah.org/hbns/newsrelease/nicotine9-12-00.cfm
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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
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How Smoking Affects The Way You Look
ASH-UK factsheet covers how smoking affects the skin, body shape, and weight.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact10.html
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Smoking, the Heart, and Circulation
ASH-UK Factsheet on smoking and chronic heart disease, arterial disease, aneurysms, vascular
disease, and stroke.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact06.html
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Smoking and Respiratory Disease
ASH-UK Factsheet on smoking and lung cancer, COPD, pneumonia.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact05.html
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Smoking and Cancer
ASH-UK factsheet covers the difference cancers caused by smoking and tobacco.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact04.html
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Smoking Statistics: Illness and Death
Concise factsheet from ASH-UK boils it all down: what cigarettes do to the customer.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact02.html
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Smoking and Disease, Ash-UK basic facts #2
Factsheet uses UK numbers to demonstrate health effects of smoking.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/basic02.html
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Tobacco Does Not Alleviate Stress But Actually Increase It
Research evidence is the apparent relaxing effect of smoking only reflects the reversal of the
tension and irritability that develop during nicotine depletion.
http://www.apa.org/releases/smokestress.html
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Cigarettes Cause Heart Disease in Young People
Resent research finds that teen-agers and young adults who smoke have three times the level of
plaque in a major artery as those who don't smoke.
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/EMIHC000/22017/24546/314373.html?d=dmtICNNews
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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
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Quitting Really Does Lower Lung Cancer risk
CDC measures reduced lung cancer as a result of California's reduced smoking.
http://www.cnn.com/2000/HEALTH/cancer/11/30/lung.cancer/index.html
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Study: Smoking Doubles Risk of Dementia and Alzheimer's disease
Largest and most recent study indicates that smokers are twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's
disease and other forms of dementia.
http://www.slam.ca/HealthNews/980618_smoking.html
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Preventing Heart Disease - Smoking
Short section on smoking and the hart.
http://www.fauxpress.com/kimball/med/heart/h3/smoking.htm
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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
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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
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Most Cancer Is Made, Not Born
Recent research shows that most cancer is caused by environmental exposure to carcinogens, not from
preprogrammed genes; smoking is the single-most important avoidable cause of cancer and is directly
responsible for 30 percent of all cases.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/08/10/ED9161.DTL
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OncoLink: Smoking and Cancer
Links compiled by OncoLink.
http://www.oncolink.com/templates/resources/section.cfm?c=1&s=25
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Scots Tobacco Death Toll Studied
Scotland's title as Europe's lung cancer capital has come under the spotlight at a major
anti-smoking conference.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/379366.stm
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Smoking and Impotence
Brief article on causes of impotence.
http://medicalreporter.health.org/tmr0495/tmrimpot0495.html
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Man Learned Firsthand One Effect of Smoking
Tobacco products (both cigaretets and spit tobacco) cause Buergers disease, which "plugs up
your arteries and veins"; this is the story of a 21 year old who lost his left leg from it.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=4321859&BRD=258&PAG=461&dept_id=438987&am....
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Nicotine Addiction
Concise factsheet.
http://www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/nicaddct.html
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Quality of Life and Smoking
Most smoking studies address specific health, morbidity, and mortality outcomes. Few studies have
examined the effect of smoking and smoking cessation on quality of life. This collects a few such
studies.
http://www.atsqol.org/smoking.asp
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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
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Smoking
Short description by a doctor of the effects of smoking on health and quality of life.
http://www.freenet.scri.fsu.edu/HealthGazette/smoke.html
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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.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpb/lcdc/publicat/cdic/cdic203/cd203b_e.html
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Specimen 156.9: Lung: Emphysema
From a library of medical images, a lung with emphysema ("smoker's lung").
http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/pathology/Pathmus/F0839044.htm
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Smoking of Tobacco
Discussion, graphics, and analysis of tobacco use, disease, and death.
http://my.webmd.com/printing/dmk/dmk_article_1459455
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Health Effects of Smoking
Bibliography of research.
http://www.umdnj.edu/rspthweb/bibs/smoking.htm
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Prostate Cancer and Smoking
Slides from a college lecture discusses the association.
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec4721/index.htm
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The Burden of Illness From Tobacco
Summary in the form of a FAQ, with answers to such questions as: how do we know that an agency
(such as tobacco) can cause disease? What range of diseases does tobacco cause?
http://www.health.usyd.edu.au/tob21c/m02_faqs.html
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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
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Active and Passive Tobacco Exposure: A Serious Pediatric Health Problem
Report from the American Heart Association. Effects of firsthand and secondhand smoke on young
people: hearts, lungs, low birth weight, infant mortality, respiratory infections.
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1213
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World Tobacco Victims Memorial
A memorial devoted to victims of tobacco products.
http://www.tobaccovictims.org
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Risks of Dying From Smoking
Slide presentation outlines individual risks, social trends.
http://www1.worldbank.org/tobacco/Presentations/Presentation1/slide1.htm
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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
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Smoking can Lead to Blindness
Brief report on evidence of a link between smoking and age-related macular degeneration.
http://www.tobacco.neu.edu/tcu/3-97/BLINDNESS.html
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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
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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
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Smoking Damage
From the Australian National Tobacco Campaign, a concise outline of the different ways that
cigarettes damage the body.
http://www.quitnow.info.au/damage/damage.html
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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/
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Smoking and Cardiovascular Disease
Concise summary of effects of smoking on the heart, blood vessels, and brain.
http://www.cancersa.org.au/i-cms?page=185
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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
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Tobacco Mortality
Factsheet; all sources cited.
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter3/Chap3MORTALITY.html
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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
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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
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Smoking and injuries
Research shows that cigarette smoking is a risk factor for exercise-related injuries.
http://www-east.elsevier.com/ajpm/ajpm183S/ajpm0399fla.htm
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Katlyn's Page
"I am 11 years old and my mother has emphysema from smoking. Please listen to me - what it's
like to have a sick Mom". A story about tobacco victims who don't smoke.
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/6578/kidsbutthead_.htm
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Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost -- US
Cigarette Smoking-Attributable Mortality and Years of Potential Life Lost -- United States, 1990.
CDC analysis.
http://www.cdc.gov/epo/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00021441.htm
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Face the Faces
The human toll of tobacco, from INFACT. Started in response to a tobacco executive's statement that
the people who die each year from tobacco are just a "computer-generated number." This
site shows some of the people who are dead or dying of diseases caused by tobacco. Pictures are
accompanied by text written by friends and family.
http://www.infact.org/about.html
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How to prevent heart disease
Concise factsheet explaining how to prevent heart disease, available for downloading in Adobe
acrobat format.
http://hcd2.bupa.co.uk/fact_sheets/Mosby_factsheets/disease_prevention.html
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WebMD/Lycos Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease: Emphysema and Chronic Bronchitis
Causes, diagnosis, and treatment.
http://webmd.lycos.com/content/dmk/dmk_article_40023
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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
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Infofax - Cigarettes and Other Nicotine Products
NIH short summary of nicotine effects.
http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofax/tobacco.html
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Cigarette Anyone?
Firsthand accounts of what it is like to live with the diseases caused by cigarettes.
http://www.emphysema.net/my.html
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Easy Rider Ain't So Easy: A Living With COPD Story
I am a 50 year old man, diagnosed with COPD -- severe emphysema, chronic bronchitis and a moderate
asthmatic component. I started smoking when I was about 14 years old..."
http://www.papapoo.com/copd-pat.html
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Maternal Smoking and Infant Birth Weight
Slides from college lecture outline the effects.
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec3721/index.htm
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WHO: The Tobacco Epidemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) summarizes the situation worldwide: "each year, tobacco
causes about 3.5 million deaths throughout the world; this will increase to 10 million annual
deaths during the 2020s, with seven million of these deaths occurring in developing countries. Half
of these unnecessary deaths are occurring in middle age (35-69), robbing those killed of around 22
years of life."
http://www.who.ch/inf/pr/1997/pr97-61.html
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Ex-Smokers May Have Irreversible Damage To Arteries
New research from one of the most comprehensive studies indicates that while most risks subside
after quitting, some damage is not reversible.
http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/50c52.htm
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South Carolina Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services: Tobacco Use
"Tobacco use is the nation's deadliest addiction. Smoking cigarettes is the leading cause of
preventable death in the U.S. Over 400,000 Americans die every year from tobacco use. More people
die from tobacco than from AIDS, car accidents, alcohol, suicides, homicides, fires, and illegal
drugs combined." Summary of the effects of tobacco use.
http://www.scprevents.org/web/infosite/readroom/clearing.html
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Lung Cancer and Cigarette Smoking
Thoracic surgeon Fred Grannis MD provides smokers, lung cancer patients and their families with
information on cigarettes, smoking, cessation, and lung cancer risk, diagnosis, and treatment.
Webpage design by one of his patients.
http://www.smokinglungs.com/
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Smoking and Respiratory Disease
Information from the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria, Australia. Factsheet, diagrams, and basic
information.
http://www.cancersa.org.au/i-cms?page=1.6.36.368.745
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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
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Larynx Cancer and Smoking
Doctor explains how his patients who smoke get invasive cancer of the voice box (larynx); images
and video of a biopsy.
http://www.entusa.com/voice_box_cancer.htm
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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/booklets/iesmoke.html
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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
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Zep's Why Quit Smoking site
Personal stories of people who died from cigarette smoking.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/Zep_/
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Smoking's Deadly Effects
Statistics don't tell the whole story of tobacco disease and death. That's why PBS is running a
program on Pam Laffin, a woman who tells her own story of emphysema caused by tobacco products.
The story of how she got started smoking, how she discovered she had the disease, and how she lives
her live now with one lung, is more compelling sometimes than any amount of statistics.
http://www.pbs.org/healthweek/featurep3a_320.htm
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Smoking Does Not Protect Against Dementia or Alzheimer's Disease
Contrary to suggestions from previous research, this study of over 34,000 subjects found no effect
of smoking on senility or Alzheimer's. The previous suggestions that it did came from flawed
studies, say the authors.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2000-04/BMJ-Sdnp-2004100.php
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ACSH: Tobacco
The American Council on Science and Health has been a leader in restoring scienctific fact and
context to health issues, both in exposing overstated and understated risks. This page covers
tobacco, including what the warning label doesn't tell you.
http://www.acsh.org/tobacco/index.html
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