Google Directory - Health > Specific Substances > Tobacco > Effects

Directory Help
Search only in CancerSearch the Web

Cancer

Health > Specific Substances > Tobacco > Effects > Cancer

Go to Directory Home

Categories

Breast (6)
Lung (4)
Mouth and Throat (2)
Secondhand Smoke (11)

Web Pages

Viewing in Google PageRank order View in alphabetical order

	American Cancer Society - Cancer Statistics - http://www.cancer.org/docroot/stt/stt_0.asp Facts and figures, available in pdf format.
	American Cancer Society: Harmful Effects of Tobacco - http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/ped_10_1.asp?sitearea=PED Information related to use of cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, and exposure to secondhand smoke.
	Prostate Cancer and Smoking - http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec4721/index.htm Slides from a college lecture discusses the association.
	Dying of Cancer, She Used Her Last Days to Warn Kids - http://www.cbc.ca/news/obit/tarbox_barb/ 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.
	Scots Tobacco Death Toll Studied - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/379366.stm Scotland's title as Europe's lung cancer capital has come under the spotlight at a major anti-smoking conference.

	Smoking and Cancer - http://oldash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact04.html ASH-UK factsheet covers the difference cancers caused by smoking and tobacco.
	NCI: Tobacco and Cancer - http://cancer.gov/cancerinfo/tobacco/ Information from the National Cancer Institute includes questions and answers about tobacco products and their association with cancer. It also includes information about quitting, prevention, clinical trials, research, literature, and statistics.
	Most Cancer Is Made, Not Born - http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/08/10/ED9161.DTL 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.
	OncoLink: Smoking and Cancer - http://www.oncolink.com/resources/section.cfm?c=1&s=25 Links compiled by OncoLink.
	Tobacco, Colorectal Cancer, and Adenomas: A Review of the evidence. - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8944002?dopt=Abstract Another cancer now known to be caused by smoking.

Paternal Smoking and Cancer among Children of Nonsmoking Mothers - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9017004?dopt=Abstract
Scientific paper finds paternal smoking before conception increases risk of the children getting cancer, particularly acute leukemia and lymphoma.

Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.

Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor