Surf these sites: ACSH: Tobacco -- The American Council on Science and Health has been a leader in restoring scienctific fact and context to health issues, both in exposing overstated and understated risks. This page covers tobacco, including what the warning label doesn''t tell you. AHC News Alert -- Collection of health stories, including extensive coverage of tobacco. American Cancer Society-Cancer Facts and Figures 1998: Tobacco Use -- Facts from the ACS; e.g. most tobacco deaths are not cancer deaths; more women have died from lung cancer than breast cancer since 1987; tobacco causes one of every five deaths in America; tobacco costs the U.S. more than $100 billion a year. American Heart Association: Cigarette Smoking And Cardiovascular Diseases -- Cigarette smoking is the most important preventable cause of premature death in the United State. Most of those deaths are from heart disease, not cancer. The facts from the AHA. Asbestos and Cigarettes -- Asbestos and cigarette smoke both cause lung cancer, but some types of lung cancer are specific to one cause. A short summary of the facts. Site is run by attorneys who represent people who have cancer from asbestos exposure. Bibliography on smoking and health -- A selection of Addiction Research Foundation library materials on smoking and health. Cardiology: Smoking -- Factsheets from Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center. Cigarette Anyone? -- Emphsema Foundation tells what it''s like to live with the disease. Cigarettes cause cancer -- Article in Chemistry and Industry magazine. For years, the industry argued that the connection between smoking and cancer was "merely epidemiological". This article summarizes the p53 gene damage that establishes a mechanism. Cigars: Coolish or Foolish? -- "Movie stars and athletes smoke stogies on the cover of magazines. Bars and liquor stores sell fine cigars the way they do fine brandies. It''s a symbol of the good life...but riskwise, smoking cigars is not much different than smoking cigarettes. The real difference is in the type of cancer that cigar smokers develop -- head and neck instead of lung." Diseases related to smoking -- Part of a collecction of quit smoking resources. Does Tobacco Use Cause Other (non-malignant) Disease? -- Tobacco use actually claims more lives via tobacco-caused diseases other than cancer. Easy Rider Ain''t So Easy: A Living With COPD Story -- I am a 50 year old man, diagnosed with COPD -- severe emphysema, chronic bronchitis and a moderate asthmatic component. I started smoking when I was about 14 years old..." FAQ: Cigarettes and Health -- How many people die from smoking? How many years does smoking take from a smoker''s life? Are low-tar cigaerettes safer? These and other questions annswered in this FAQ.. 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. Health Consequences of Smoking -- Overview; graphic analysis; illustrations; breakdown and concise summary by disease; bibliography. Health effects of active smoking -- Complete book chapter; click-able footnotes. Health effects of tobacco use -- Numbers are for Canada but info is general. Hooked on Nicotine -- Short article for mylifepath on nicotine, addiction, and health effects of tobacco. How to prevent heart disease -- Concise factsheet explaining how to prevent heart disease, available for downloading in Adobe acrobat format. Infofax - Cigarettes and Other Nicotine Products -- NIH short summary of nicotine effects. Katlyn''s Butt-head Page -- "I am 11 years old and my mother has emphysema from smoking. Please listen to me - what it''s like to have a sick Mom". A powerful story. A lot of tobacco''s victims don''t even smoke. Lung Cancer and Cigarette Smoking -- Thoracic surgeon Fred Grannis MD provides smokers, lung cancer patients and their families with information on cigarette smoking, cessation, and lung cancer risk, diagnosis, and treatment. Webpage design by one of his patients. Lung Cancer and Cigarette Smoking Web Page -- "Lung cancer is the number one cause of cancer deaths in both men and women in the United States. More than 160,100 Americans will die from lung cancer in 1998. Only 12-15% of patients with lung cancer are cured. More than 90% of lung cancers are preventable...My background is that of an ex-smoker and current thoracic surgeon, who has spent most of his adult life treating disease caused by tobacco. Finally after twenty years or so of this, I came finally to the realization that I was working on an assembly line that would continue to roll on forever. The only real way to treat these diseases is to shut off the assembly line where it begins, in North Carolina." Lung Cancer for Patients -- "In 1990 91,091 men and 50,194 women died of lung cancer. This is extremely sad as most of these deaths were preventable. The cause of most lung cancer is known and is avoidable". If you had a friend who was a pathologist and asked him for a bottom-line summary on the disease, its causes, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention, this is what you''d get. Meds.com: Lung Cancer Library -- Both physician and patient versions of information sheets on smoking, secondhand smoke, lung cancer, metastases, clinical trials, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and short topics. The facts. NCI: What You Need To Know About Lung Cancer -- Pamphlet format. Covers the disease, who''s at risk, recognizing symptoms, diagnosing lung cancer, the stages of the disease, treatment, side effects. NCTH: Smoking and Health FAQ -- Are low-tar cigarettes safer? How many years does smoking take from a smoker''s life? How much does smoking cost the economy? The questions and others are answered in this FAQ. All sources are cited. OncoLink: Smoking and Cancer -- Extensive set of links compiled by OncoLink. Plus original content. Covers tobacco sales, effects, secondhand smoke, news, quitting tips. Smokers can and do die young! -- Shows effects of smoking through photographs and stories of smokers, including those who died or are dying in their 30''s. Images of diseased lungs; links to lung cancer and quit smoking support groups. Smoking and Diabetes -- It''s a bad combination, basically. The facts from the American Diabetes Association. Smoking and Diabetes -- Rundown from the Canadian Diabetes Association on the effects of smoking on diabetes. Smoking and Respiratory Disease -- Info from the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria, Australia. Factsheet; diagrams; basic info. Smoking and Your Health -- Treatment, prevention, diagnosis, email groups, support groups, personal stories and more. Smoking and the Heart -- U.S.News & World Report Smoking can Lead to Blindness -- Recent research adds to the evidence for the link bewteen smoking and AMD. AMD is the main cause of blindness among people over 65. 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. 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. Snap''s page on cigarettes -- Information on smoking''s effects from cancer to wrinkles; quitting methods; 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. The Global Politics of Tobacco -- A look at the global costs of growing and using the crop. The Hurt Never Goes Away -- Over 400,000 Americans die each year due to tobacco use. COST has provided a way for the survivors to express themselves, share their pain. The Irreversible Health Effects of Cigarette Smoking -- "Tobacco-related health effects decline substantially" when the smoker quits, but some damage is irreversible: "a permanent effect on the lungs, the heart, the eyes, the throat, the urinary tract, the digestive organs, the bones and joints, and the skin". Tobacco & Nicotine & Dental Health -- Information and resources on tobacco and dental health from ADA ONLINE, the American Dental Association''s Web site. Tobacco Control - Dental Hygiene Education -- Dental patient information about tobacco use; instructions for self-examination for mouth cancer; dental professional information about tobacco. Tobacco Use and Periodontal Disease -- A lesser known effect of tobacco products: tooth and gum disease. With modern dental care, 80% of nonsmokers still have their own teeth at age 65; for smokers, the odds aren''t nearly so good. These and other facts from the American Academy of Periodontology. WebMD/Lycos Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease: Emphysema and Chronic Bronchitis -- Causes, diagnosis, and treatment. What the Tobacco Companies Forgot to Tell You -- Illustrated report from ASH Australia. Not for the faint hearted. World Health Organization: A Global Status Report -- Broken down by country. Thorough, yet succinct. 1997 data.
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