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  Mortality from Smoking in Developed Countries 1950-2000 http://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/~tobacco/
Latest edition of massive tome; content in PDF format.
  World Tobacco Victims Memorial http://www.tobaccovictims.org
A memorial devoted to victims of tobacco products.
  Smoking: The Health Effects http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/medical_notes/473673.stm
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.
  Smoking Cessation Health Center http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/default.htm
Discussion, graphics, and analysis of tobacco use, disease, and death.
  Cigarette Smoking-Attributable Morbidity --- United States, 2000 http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5235a4.htm
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.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  Cigarette Anyone? http://www.emphysema.net/my.html
Firsthand accounts of what it is like to live with the diseases caused by cigarettes.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  Risks of Dying From Smoking http://www1.worldbank.org/tobacco/Presentations/Presentation1/slide1.htm
Slide presentation outlines individual risks, social trends.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  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.
  Smoking Statistics: Illness and Death http://oldash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact02.html
Concise factsheet from ASH-UK boils it all down: what cigarettes do to the customer.
  Diagnose-Me: Conditions: Cigarette Smoke Damage http://www.diagnose-me.com/cond/C211471.html
Lists diseases caused by tobacco propducts, and provides a brief description of each.
  Tobacco Mortality http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter3/Chap3MORTALITY.html
Factsheet; all sources cited.
  Smoking Increases Anxiety http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1010221.stm
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.
  Health Effects of Active Smoking http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/fandi/c03.htm
Complete book chapter on health effects of cigarettes.
  Does Tobacco Use Cause Other (non-malignant) Disease? http://smokinglungs.com/otherdis.htm
Tobacco use actually claims more lives via tobacco-caused diseases other than cancer.
  How Smoking Affects The Way You Look http://old.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact10.html
ASH-UK factsheet covers how smoking affects the skin, body shape, and weight.
  Smoking Deaths Not Overstated, Re-Analysis Shows http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/284/6/706
Refuting claims by the tobacco industry that death estimates from smoking are inflated, the American Medical Association re-analyzes the data.
  Premature Skin Wrinkling And Cigarette Smoking http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/news/8525697700573E1885256B8400646C83
Recent research on how tobacco products cause face wrinkles in young people.
  Fire Injuries, Disasters, and Costs from Cigarettes and Cigarette Lights fires http://epm-leistikow.ucdavis.edu/SMOKINGFIRES.HTM
Scientific paper estimates the injuries, deaths, and costs from smoking-attributable files.
  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.
  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.
  Smoking and Diabetes http://www.diabetes.org/type-1-diabetes/smoking.jsp
Facts from the American Diabetes Association.
  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.
  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.
  Where There's Smoking, There's Fire http://masspirg.org/MA.asp?id2=4241&id3=MA
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.
  Smoking Caused Disability http://jech.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/54/8/566
Smoking not only shortens life, it increases number of years of disability. This research analysis estimates how much increased disability is caused by smoking.

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