'Impact Booster': Tobacco Firm Shows How Ammonia Spurs Delivery of Nicotine
1996 Pulitzer prize-winning reporting on how the tobacco industry uses ammonia to engineer cigarettes for addiction.

A Collection of Articles on Nicotine Addiction
Articles about research studies funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

ABC DayOne: Smoke Screen
Now-famous segment on nicotine manipulation in cigarettes.

Addicted to Nicotine: A National Research Forum
Includes presentation summaries of papers presented at the conference held in 2001 at the (US) National Institutes of Health. Topics include nicotine delivery systems, pharmacology, individual and environmental risk factors, the psychobiology of addition, and treatment of nicotine dependence.

Ammonia Added to Cigarettes Can Significantly Boost Availability of Nicotine
Independent research confirms that ammonia added to ciarettes can boost the availability of nicotine up to 100 times.

Cancer Facts and Figures
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.

CDC's TIPS: Tobacco Information and Prevention Source
Maintained by the CDC's Office on Smoking and Health. Covers tobacco-related issues, statistics, news, research, data, reports, quitting tips, educational materials, publications, . Also sections dedicated to youth.

eMedicine - Nicotine Addiction
Medical facts on the physiology of nicotine addiction, and the effect tobacco products have on the brain, lungs, and other vital organs, and a treatment options section.

Harris Poll: Tobacco Addiction
Reveals that 70% of all people still smoking have tried to quit, on average four times, and most are aware of tobacco's health effects; poll results called a metric of the power of tobacco addiction.

Infofax - Cigarettes and Other Nicotine Products
NIH short summary of nicotine effects.

Low Tar Exposed
Site explains why "low tar", "light" and "mild" cigarettes are just as harmful as regular cigarettes.

M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - 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.

Nicotine Addiction
Concise factsheet.

Nicotine Addiction Can Start Within A Few Days And After Just A Few Cigarettes
Recent research shows that cigarette products cause addiction much faster than was previously believed, in just a few doses.

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