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Health: Addictions: Substance_Abuse: Tobacco: Industry
Health: Addictions: Substance_Abuse: Tobacco: Cigars
Health: Addictions: Substance_Abuse: Tobacco: Secondhand_Smoke
Health: Addictions: Substance_Abuse: Tobacco: Spit_Tobacco
Health: Addictions: Substance_Abuse: Tobacco: Teen_Smoking
Health: Addictions: Substance_Abuse: Tobacco: Activism
Health: Addictions: Substance_Abuse: Tobacco: Effects
Health: Addictions: Substance_Abuse: Tobacco: Government
Health: Addictions: Substance_Abuse: Tobacco: World
Health: Addictions: Substance_Abuse: Tobacco: Research
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Health: Addictions: Substance_Abuse: Tobacco: History
Health: Addictions: Substance_Abuse: Tobacco: Organizations
Health: Addictions: Substance_Abuse: Tobacco: Quitting
Health: Addictions: Substance_Abuse: Tobacco: Conferences
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1.Smoking Deaths, Years of Life Lost, and Cost; United States, 1995-1999
Medical report presents the annual estimates of the disease impact of smoking in the United States during 1995-1999.
URL:http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n18/ffull/jwr0508-1.html
2.WebMD: Smoking
Effects of cigarettes and other tobacco products; who smokes? why do smokers fail to quit? what are methods for quitting? what should smokers do until they quit? Some tips for quitting.
URL:http://my.webmd.com/content/dmk/dmk_article_40081
3.Nicotine, Tobacco, and Smoking - What's the Big Deal?
Basic information on smoking, quitting, cigarettes, and other tobacco products.
URL:http://pharmacology.about.com/health/pharmacology/library/weekly/aa970507.htm?iam=mt
4.Nicotine Junkies
Information on kids and smoking, facts about smoking and addiction.
URL:http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/024nicotine/
5.Tobacco: The Moral Issues
Short paper by Joseph Califano, former secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
URL:http://www.americapress.org/articles/CalifTobac.htm
6.Tobacco Explained: The Truth About The Tobacco Industry In Its Own Words
ASH UK paper based on a review of thousands of internal tobacco industry documents that "reveal the most astonishing systematic corporate deceit". Covers industry knowledge, strategy, and action on smoking and health; nicotine and addiction; marketing to children; advertising; cigarette design; passive smoking; emerging markets; women.
URL:http://www.ash.org.uk/html/conduct/html/tobexpld0.html
7.Nicotine and Addiction
ASH-UK factsheet on nicotine, its properties, and how cigarettes and tobacco products deliver it to the body.
URL:http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact09.html
8.Cancer Facts and Figures 1996: Tobacco Use
Concise summary from the American Cancer Society of tobacco use, cigarettes, trends in smoking, profiling smokers, costs of tobacco, nicotine addiction, secondhand smoke, spit tobacco, and industrial hazards.
URL:http://www.cancer.org/statistics/96cff/tobacco.html
9.Report of the UK Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health
Report covers the scientific evidence on active smoking, passive smoking, nicotine addiction, price and marketing of cigarettes and other tobacco products, cessation, key conclusions.
URL:http://www.doh.gov.uk/public/scoth.htm
10.drkoop.com: Tackling Tobacco
Overview and news on health and smoking; cigarettes and cigars; featured articles; risk profiler; quitting tips; diagnosis and prevention of diseases caused by tobacco.
URL:http://www.drkoop.com/wellness/tobacco/
11.The Tobacco Reference Guide
Complete online book provides quotes, summaries, and factsheets on: scope of the problem and overall death and disability; demographics; mortality and longevity data; history; secondhand smoke; asthma and allergy; lung cancer; other cancers; heart disease; COPD; other healthproblems; impotence; pregnancy; children and teen smoking; spit tobacco; pipes and cigars; tobacco ingredients and additives; nicotine and addiction; low tar and nicotine cigarettes; quitting; women and smoking; advertising; and much more.
URL:http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/
12.Smoking And Tobacco Factsheets
From the Missouri Health Department, a large set of factsheets on cigarettes, tobacco advertising, health effects, and secondhand smoke.
URL:http://www.health.state.mo.us/SmokingAndTobacco/FSST.html
13.Sylvester Stallone's agreement
Letter from Stallone documenting his cigarette product placement deal with Brown and Williamson Tobacco.
URL:http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/docs/html/2406.03/2406.03.1.html
14.Nicotine Addiction And Cigarettes
American Lung Association info sheets on smoking, nicotine, and related topics: does smoking help people relax? What quitting methods work?
URL:http://www.lungusa.org/tobacco/tobacco_general_index.html
15.M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - Smoking, Tobacco & Cancer
University of Texas medical center factsheets on effects of smoking and tobacco, and tips and support for quitting. One-third of M. D. Anderson patients have tobacco-related cancers.
URL:http://www.mdanderson.org/topics/smoking
16.Tobacco Web
From Australia: cigarettes, tobacco history; current trends; smoking and health, the tobacco industry -- recent revelations; secondhand smoke; young people and smoking; smoking in the workplace; tqitting smoking.
URL:http://www.nswcc.org.au/cncrinfo/cncrsmrt/index2.htm
17.Quit Victoria
"Tobacco smoking is the single most important cause of ill health and premature death in Australia." Not just quitting information -- health questions answered; effects of cigarettes; quit evaluation studies; information in languages other than English; smokefree workplaces and dining.
URL:http://www.quit.org.au/
18.Tobacco in Australia: Facts and Issues
A complete, online, book, with all citations to the literature. Covers cigarettes, other tobacco products; statistics and trends; health effects; smoking in the workplace and public places; public policy; addiction; quitting; anti-smoking campaigns; the tobacco industry; and more.
URL:http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/welcome.htm
19.Nicotine Addiction in Britain
Extensive report produced by the Royal College of Physicians. "Nicotine addiction is one of the major reasons why people continue to smoke cigarettes, and cigarettes are in reality extremely effective and closely controlled nicotine delivery devices".
URL:http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/pubs/books/nicotine/2-physical.htm
20.Smoking Is Ugly
Created and sustained by Christy Turlington, an online resource guide, providing information and links to numerous lung cancer and smoking-cessation related websites. SmokingIsUgly.com is part of Turlington's campaign to raise awareness about the effects of smoking, smoking related diseases and lung cancer.
URL:http://www.smokingisugly.com
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