Smoking
- Short description by a doctor of the effects of smoking on health and quality of life.
- http://www.tfn.net/HealthGazette/smoke.html

The Irreversible Health Effects of Cigarettes
- Pamphlet from ACSH. Quitting greatly reduces risks, but some effects of smoking are permanent.
- http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.377/pub_detail.asp

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.
- http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/cdic-mcc/20-3/b_e.html

Cigarettes and Asbestos
- A short summary of the facts. Site is run by attorneys.
- http://bg-law.com/cigarettes.asp

Tobacco or Health: The Consequences of Tabacco Use
- Summary of health effects, costs, effects on environment, with focus on Canada.
- http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-28813-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

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 diffe
- http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_2004/index.htm

Smoking can Lead to Blindness
- Smoking and macular degeneration, cataracts, loss of hearing, and loss of night visioin.
- http://www.mdsupport.org/library/nosmoke.html

Smoking and Diabetes
- Facts from the American Diabetes Association.
- http://www.diabetes.org/type-1-diabetes/smoking.jsp

Diagnose-Me: Conditions: Cigarette Smoke Damage
- Lists diseases caused by tobacco propducts, and provides a brief description of each.
- http://www.diagnose-me.com/cond/C211471.html

Just the Facts
- Very short factsheet on health effects of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
- http://www.state.in.us/isdh/programs/tobacco/adults.htm

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 pers
- http://www.sptimes.com/News/61599/Floridian/He_wanted_you_to_know.shtml

WebMD: Smoking Cessation
- Effects of cigarettes and other tobacco products. Some tips for quitting.
- http://my.webmd.com/medical_information/condition_centers/smoking_cessation/default.htm

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.
- http://my.webmd.com/content/article/22/1728_55546

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.
- http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/284/6/706

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.
- http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5235a4.htm

Mortality from Smoking in Developed Countries 1950-2000
- Latest edition of massive tome; content in PDF format.
- http://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/~tobacco/

Premature Skin Wrinkling And Cigarette Smoking
- Recent research on how tobacco products cause face wrinkles in young people.
- http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/news/8525697700573E1885256B8400646C83

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.
- http://www.femail.co.uk/pages/standard/article.html?in_article_id=104616&in_page_id=179

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.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/medical_notes/473673.stm

How Smoking Affects The Way You Look
- ASH-UK factsheet covers how smoking affects the skin, body shape, and weight.
- http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact10.html

Smoking and Disease, Ash-UK basic facts #2
- Factsheet uses UK numbers to demonstrate health effects of smoking.
- http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/basic02.html

Other Health Problems
- From cataracts to diabetes, from osteoporosis to skin disorders, the other health effects of tobacco products.
- http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter11/table_of_contents_chap11.html

Worldwide Trends in Tobacco Consumption and Mortality
- WHO report outlines effects of tobacco globally, identifies trends.
- http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/tobacco/who-tobacco.htm

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.
- http://jech.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/54/8/566

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.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1010221.stm

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.
- http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1213

World Tobacco Victims Memorial
- A memorial devoted to victims of tobacco products.
- http://www.tobaccovictims.org

Risks of Dying From Smoking
- Slide presentation outlines individual risks, social trends.
- http://www1.worldbank.org/tobacco/Presentations/Presentation1/slide1.htm

Facts About Nicotine and Tobacco Products
- From NIH, brief presentation of effects of nicotine and tobacco products.
- http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA_Notes/NNVol13N3/tearoff.html

Fire Injuries, Disasters, and Costs from Cigarettes and Cigarette Lights fires
- Scientific paper estimates the injuries, deaths, and costs from smoking-attributable files.
- http://epm-leistikow.ucdavis.edu/SMOKINGFIRES.HTM

Tobacco BBS Health Information Page
- Annotated collection of links on health effects of firsthand and secondhand smoking, spit tobacco, quitting.
- http://www.tobacco.org/resources/health/

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.
- http://no-smoking.org/june01/06-25-01-4.html

Tobacco Mortality
- Factsheet; all sources cited.
- http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter3/Chap3MORTALITY.html

Tobacco Use: United States, 1900-1999
- From the Cancer Network, a survey of smoking trends and their effects during the 20th century.
- http://www.cancernetwork.com/journals/oncology/o9912d.htm

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.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/536633.stm

Does Tobacco Use Cause Other (non-malignant) Disease?
- Tobacco use actually claims more lives via tobacco-caused diseases other than cancer.
- http://smokinglungs.com/otherdis.htm

Cigarette Anyone?
- Firsthand accounts of what it is like to live with the diseases caused by cigarettes.
- http://www.emphysema.net/my.html

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.
- http://www.tobacco-facts.info

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.
- http://www.spinalinjury.net/html/_smoking_and_sci.html