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All about tobacco facts, smoking cancer, epidemiology and quitting - http://www.tobacco-facts.info
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. |
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Tobacco BBS Health Information Page - http://www.tobacco.org/resources/health/
Annotated collection of links on health effects of firsthand and secondhand smoking, spit tobacco, quitting. |
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Facts About Nicotine and Tobacco Products - http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA_Notes/NNVol13N3/tearoff.html
From NIH, brief presentation of effects of nicotine and tobacco products. |
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Cigarette Anyone? - http://www.emphysema.net/my.html
Firsthand accounts of what it is like to live with the diseases caused by cigarettes. |
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Tobacco or Health: The Consequences of Tobacco Use - http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-28813-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html
Summary of health effects, costs, effects on environment, with focus on Canada. |
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Mortality Attributable to Tobacco Use in Canada, 1994 and 1996 - http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/cdic-mcc/20-3/b_e.html
Using data from the National Population Health Survey and the Canadian Mortality Database, estimates national and regional smoking-attributable deaths for 1994 and 1996. |
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The Irreversible Health Effects of Cigarettes - http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.377/pub_detail.asp
Pamphlet from ACSH. Quitting greatly reduces risks, but some effects of smoking are permanent. |
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Risks of Dying From Smoking - http://www1.worldbank.org/tobacco/Presentations/Presentation1/slide1.htm
Slide presentation outlines individual risks, social trends. |
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Spinal cord injury: Smoking and SCI - http://www.spinalinjury.net/html/_smoking_and_sci.html
For SCI survivors who smoke there's even more bad news and more ill health effects than general population. |
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Tobacco Use: United States, 1900-1999 - http://www.cancernetwork.com/journals/oncology/o9912d.htm
From the Cancer Network, a survey of smoking trends and their effects during the 20th century. |
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He Wanted You to Know - http://www.sptimes.com/News/61599/Floridian/He_wanted_you_to_know.shtml
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. |
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http://www.tfn.net/HealthGazette/smoke.html - http://www.tfn.net/HealthGazette/smoke.html
Short description by a doctor of the effects of smoking on health and quality of life. |
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Smoking can Lead to Blindness - http://www.mdsupport.org/library/nosmoke.html
Smoking and macular degeneration, cataracts, loss of hearing, and loss of night vision. |
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Other Health Problems - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter11/table_of_contents_chap11.html
From cataracts to diabetes, from osteoporosis to skin disorders, the other health effects of tobacco products. |
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BBC News: Grim toll of smoking - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/536633.stm
More than 122,000 British smokers will die prematurely in the year 2000 from a smoking-related disease; article explains. |
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Smokers Get Ill Sooner, Study Says - http://no-smoking.org/june01/06-25-01-4.html
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. |
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Worldwide Trends in Tobacco Consumption and Mortality - http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/tobacco/who-tobacco.htm
WHO report outlines effects of tobacco globally, identifies trends. |
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Smoking and Diabetes - http://www.diabetes.org/type-1-diabetes/smoking.jsp
Facts from the American Diabetes Association. |
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webmd.com - Yet Another Reason to Put That Cigarette Down - http://my.webmd.com/content/article/22/1728_55546
Cigarettes are the leading cause of an infection that can cause severe pneumonia or meningitis. |
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The Whole Truth About Smoking - http://www.femail.co.uk/pages/standard/article.html?in_article_id=104616&in_page_id=179
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. |