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Berkeley Economic Research Associates (BERA): Offers a set of statistics-based reports on effects of smoking.

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

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: Cigarette smoking and passive exposure to tobacco smoke are important causes of mortality in the United States. Active and passive exposure to tobacco smoke are projected to contribute to more than 400 000 deaths annually. Coronary artery disease, cancer (particularly lung cancer), and chronic ob...

All about tobacco facts, smoking cancer, epidemiology and quitting: Risks of tobacco and smoking. Facts on larynx and lung cancer, emphysema, epidemology and how to quit smoking!!

BBC News: Grim toll of smoking: More than 122,000 British smokers will die prematurely in the year 2000 from a smoking-related disease, according to the World Health Organization.

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: Smoking cigarettes and exposure to asbestos do you have a legal case? Get asbestos, cigarette and mesothelioma legal advice from Texas attorneys Blumenthal & Gruber, LLP

Diagnose-Me: Conditions: Cigarette Smoke Damage: The Analyst (TM) - Comprehensive Online Evaluations For Those Seeking Answers To Their Health Problems. Travel-Free Results, Now!

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...

Facts About Nicotine and Tobacco Products: Update on nicotine addiction and tobacco research provided by the National Institute on Drug Abuse

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

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.

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.

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

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.

Mortality Attributable to Tobacco Use in Canada, 1994 and 1996: Suicides Among Canadian Farm Operators: The objective of this epidemiologic study was to describe rates of suicide among male farm operators in Canada and to compare rates with those in the general male population. The data were obtained from the Canadian Farm Operator Cohort (CFOC) database.

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.

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: Everything for People Concerned About Smoking and Protecting the Rights of Nonsmokers.

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

Smoking and Diabetes: Tobacco has many bad health effects, particularly for people with diabetes. No matter how long you've smoked, your health will improve when you quit.

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.

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

Smoking's Deadly Effects: This Web site, provided by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), is home to more than 350 television show companion sites in addition to Web-original sites. PBS Online hosts interactive content for everyone — including kids, parents, educators, and the general audience.

Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost -- US: Resource Not Available

Smoking: The Health Effects: Smoking is a greater cause of death and disability than any single disease, says the World Health Organisation

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 comb...

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: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) presents the Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS). This Web site is maintained by the CDC's Office on Smoking and Health, which is a division of the National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (US Gov't Web...

The Irreversible Health Effects of Cigarettes: irreversible, health, effects

The Whole Truth About Smoking: Access the Daily Mail and The Mail on Sunday online 24 hours a day

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: Leading oncologists offer research and opinion on the screening, early detection, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention cancers.

webmd.com - Yet Another Reason to Put That Cigarette Down: Cigarette smoking is a well-known risk factor for cancer and heart disease, and a new study from the CDC reports that cigarettes are also the No. 1 cause of an infection that can cause severe pneumonia or meningitis.

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

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 unn...

World Tobacco Victims Memorial: Tobacco Victims Memorial and Survivors' website

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

Zep's Why Quit Smoking site: Free tools and program to help you quit smoking tobacco and break nicotine's powerful grip