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 diseas…
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 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…
Diagnose-Me: Conditions: Cigarette Smoke Damage
Lists diseases caused by tobacco propducts, and provides a brief description of each.
How Smoking Affects The Way You Look
ASH-UK factsheet covers how smoking affects the skin, body shape, and weight.
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 co…
Smoking and Disease, Ash-UK basic facts #2
Factsheet uses UK numbers to demonstrate health effects of smoking.
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 Statistics: Illness and Death
Concise factsheet from ASH-UK boils it all down: what cigarettes do to the customer.
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'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 tobac…
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.
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.
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