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• Health: Addictions: Substance Abuse: Tobacco: Quitting  (177)
• Health: Pharmacy: Drugs and Medications: N: Nicotine  (2)
• Society: Issues: Health: Tobacco  (1,406)

Berkeley Economic Research Associates (BERA) -  .

- Offers a set of statistics-based reports on effects of smoking.

Smoking Statistics: Illness and Death -  .

- Concise factsheet from ASH-UK boils it all down: what cigarettes do to the customer.

Active and Passive Tobacco Exposure: A Serious Pediatric Health Problem - - 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 - - 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 - - More than 122,000 British smokers will die prematurely in the year 2000 from a smoking-related disease; article explains.

Cigarette Anyone? - - Firsthand accounts of what it is like to live with the diseases caused by cigarettes.

Cigarette Smoking-Attributable Morbidity --- United States, 2000 - - 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 - - A short summary of the facts. Site is run by attorneys.

Diagnose-Me: Conditions: Cigarette Smoke Damage - - Lists diseases caused by tobacco propducts, and provides a brief description of each.

Does Tobacco Use Cause Other (non-malignant) Disease? - - Tobacco use actually claims more lives via tobacco-caused diseases other than cancer.

Face the Faces - - 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 diseases caused by tobacco. Pictures are accompanied by text written by friends and family.

Facts About Nicotine and Tobacco Products - - From NIH, brief presentation of effects of nicotine and tobacco products.

Fire Injuries, Disasters, and Costs from Cigarettes and Cigarette Lights fires - - Scientific paper estimates the injuries, deaths, and costs from smoking-attributable files.

Health Effects of Active Smoking - - Complete book chapter on health effects of cigarettes.

Health Effects of Smoking - - Bibliography of research.

How Smoking Affects The Way You Look - - ASH-UK factsheet covers how smoking affects the skin, body shape, and weight.

The Irreversible Health Effects of Cigarettes - - Pamphlet from ACSH. Quitting greatly reduces risks, but some effects of smoking are permanent.

Just the Facts - - Very short factsheet on health effects of cigarettes and other tobacco products.

Mortality Attributable to Tobacco Use in Canada, 1994 and 1996 - - Using data from the National Population Health Survey and the Canadian Mortality Database, estimates national and regional smoking-attributable deaths for 1994 and 1996.

Mortality from Smoking in Developed Countries 1950-2000 - - Latest edition of massive tome; content in PDF format.

Other Health Problems - - From cataracts to diabetes, from osteoporosis to skin disorders, the other health effects of tobacco products.

Premature Skin Wrinkling And Cigarette Smoking - - Recent research on how tobacco products cause face wrinkles in young people.

Quality of Life and Smoking - - Most smoking studies address specific health, morbidity, and mortality outcomes. Few studies have examined the effect of smoking and smoking cessation on quality of life. This collects a few such studies.

Risks of Dying From Smoking - - Slide presentation outlines individual risks, social trends.

Smokers Get Ill Sooner, Study Says - - 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.

Smoking - - Short description by a doctor of the effects of smoking on health and quality of life.

Smoking and Diabetes - - Facts from the American Diabetes Association.

Smoking and Disease, Ash-UK basic facts #2 - - Factsheet uses UK numbers to demonstrate health effects of smoking.

Smoking and injuries - - Research shows that cigarette smoking is a risk factor for exercise-related injuries.

Smoking can Lead to Blindness - - Smoking and macular degeneration, cataracts, loss of hearing, and loss of night visioin.

Smoking Caused Disability - - Smoking not only shortens life, it increases number of years of disability. This research analysis estimates how much increased disability is caused by smoking.

Smoking Damage - - From the Australian National Tobacco Campaign, a concise outline of the different ways that cigarettes damage the body.

Smoking Deaths Not Overstated, Re-Analysis Shows - - Refuting claims by the tobacco industry that death estimates from smoking are inflated, the American Medical Association re-analyzes the data.

Smoking Increases Anxiety - - 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.

Smoking of Tobacco - - Discussion, graphics, and analysis of tobacco use, disease, and death.

Smoking: The Health Effects - - 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-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost -- US - - Cigarette Smoking-Attributable Mortality and Years of Potential Life Lost -- United States, 1990. CDC analysis.

Smoking's Deadly Effects - - Statistics don't tell the whole story of tobacco disease and death. That's why PBS is running a program on Pam Laffin, a woman who tells her own story of emphysema caused by tobacco products. The story of how she got started smoking, how she discovered she had the disease, and how she lives her live now with one lung, is more compelling sometimes than any amount of statistics.

South Carolina Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services: Tobacco Use - - "Tobacco use is the nation's deadliest addiction. Smoking cigarettes is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. Over 400,000 Americans die every year from tobacco use. More people die from tobacco than from AIDS, car accidents, alcohol, suicides, homicides, fires, and illegal drugs combined." Summary of the effects of tobacco use.

Spinal cord injury: Smoking and SCI - - For SCI survivors who smoke there's even more bad news and more ill health effects than general population.

Surgeon General's Report 2004 - The Health Consequences of Smoking - - Latest report finds that cigarettes and tobacco products cause more diseases than previously known; site features database of 1600 key scientific articles and interactive animation based on the latest findings that outlines the effects of smoking on different organs of the body.

Tobacco BBS Health Information Page - - Annotated collection of links on health effects of firsthand and secondhand smoking, spit tobacco, quitting.

Tobacco Mortality - - Factsheet; all sources cited.

Tobacco or Health: The Consequences of Tabacco Use - - Summary of health effects, costs, effects on environment, with focus on Canada.

Tobacco Use: United States, 1900-1999 - - From the Cancer Network, a survey of smoking trends and their effects during the 20th century.

WebMD: Smoking Cessation - - Effects of cigarettes and other tobacco products. Some tips for quitting.

webmd.com - Yet Another Reason to Put That Cigarette Down - - Cigarettes are the leading cause of an infection that can cause severe pneumonia or meningitis.

Where There's Smoking, There's Fire - - 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.

WHO: The Tobacco Epidemic - - The World Health Organization (WHO) summarizes the situation worldwide: "each year, tobacco causes about 3.5 million deaths throughout the world; this will increase to 10 million annual deaths during the 2020s, with seven million of these deaths occurring in developing countries. Half of these unnecessary deaths are occurring in middle age (35-69), robbing those killed of around 22 years of life..

World Tobacco Victims Memorial - - A memorial devoted to victims of tobacco products.

Worldwide Trends in Tobacco Consumption and Mortality - - WHO report outlines effects of tobacco globally, identifies trends.

Zep's Why Quit Smoking site - - Personal stories of people who died from cigarette smoking.

Man Learned Firsthand One Effect of Smoking - - Tobacco products (both cigaretets and spit tobacco) cause Buergers disease, which "plugs up your arteries and veins"; this is the story of a 21 year old who lost his left leg from it. (June 3, 2002)

The Whole Truth About Smoking - - 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. (March 13, 2002)

He Wanted You to Know - - 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. (June 15, 1999)