Active and Passive Tobacco Exposure: A Serious Pediatric Health Problem « http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1213 | | Report from the american heart association covers effects of smoking , secondhand smoke , and smokeless tobacco on young people. effects include cardiovascular and respiratory disease , low birth weight , infant mortality , and problems in the oral cavity. |
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. |
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. |
Berkeley Economic Research Associates (BERA) « http://www.bera.com | | Offers a set of statistics-based reports on effects of smoking. |
Cigarette Anyone? « http://www.emphysema.net/my.html | | Firsthand accounts of what it is like to live with the diseases caused by cigarettes. |
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. |
Cigarettes and Asbestos « http://bg-law.com/cigarettes.asp | | A short summary of the facts. site is run by attorneys. |
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. |
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. |
Face the Faces « http://www.infact.org/about.html | | The human toll of tobacco , from infact. started in response to a tobacco executive's statement that the people who die each year from tobacco are just a " computer-generated number. " this site shows some of the people who are dead or dying of di |
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. |
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. |
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 pers |
Health Effects of Active Smoking « http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/fandi/c03.htm | | Complete book chapter on health effects of cigarettes. |
How Smoking Affects The Way You Look « http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact10.html | | Ash-uk factsheet covers how smoking affects the skin , body shape , and weight. |