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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. |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. |