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  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.
  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.
  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.
  Tobacco, Colorectal Cancer, and Adenomas the evidence. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=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/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=9017004&dopt=Abstract
Scientific paper finds paternal smoking before conception increases risk of the children getting cancer, particularly acute leukemia and lymphoma.
  OncoLink: Smoking and Cancer http://www.oncolink.com/resources/section.cfm?c=1&s=25
Links compiled by OncoLink.
  Cigarette Smoke Causes Breaks in DNA and Defects to Chromosomes http://www.upmccancercenters.com/news/upci_news/2004/093004_cigarette_smoke.html
Recent research finds a single cigarette causes breaks in DNA and defects to a cell's chromosomes, leading to irreversible changes in genetic information.

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