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.
All about tobacco facts, smoking cancer, epidemiology and quitting
The facts on tobacco products and cancer of the larynx, lung, and mouth, emphysema, epidemology, and how to quit; information and graphic pictures from a Kentucky physician.
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.
Berkeley Economic Research Associates (BERA)
Offers a set of statistics-based reports on effects of smoking.
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
A short summary of the facts. Site is run by attorneys.
Diagnose-Me: Conditions: Cigarette Smoke Damage
Lists diseases caused by tobacco propducts, and provides a brief description of each.
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 text written by friends and family.
Facts About Nicotine and Tobacco Products
From NIH, brief presentation of effects of nicotine and tobacco products.
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 Active Smoking
Complete book chapter on health effects of cigarettes.
Health Effects of Smoking
Bibliography of research.
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