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.
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.
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 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 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: 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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