 Mortality from Smoking in Developed Countries 1950-2000 - http://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/~tobacco/ Latest edition of massive tome; content in PDF format. |
 Just the Facts - http://www.in.gov/isdh/programs/tobacco/adults.htm Very short factsheet on health effects of cigarettes and other tobacco products. |
 webmd.com - Yet Another Reason to Put That Cigarette Down - http://my.webmd.com/content/article/22/1728_55546 Cigarettes are the leading cause of an infection that can cause severe pneumonia or meningitis. |
 Smoking Cessation Health Center - http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/default.htm Discussion, graphics, and analysis of tobacco use, disease, and death. |
 WebMD: Smoking Cessation - http://my.webmd.com/medical_information/condition_centers/smoking_cessation/default.htm Effects of cigarettes and other tobacco products. Some tips for quitting. |
 Premature Skin Wrinkling And Cigarette Smoking - http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/news/8525697700573E1885256B8400646C83 Recent research on how tobacco products cause face wrinkles in young people. |
 Surgeon General's Report 2004 - The Health Consequences of Smoking - http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_2004/index.htm 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. |
 Cigarette Smoking-Attributable Morbidity --- United States, 2000 - http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5235a4.htm 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. |
 Smoking - http://www.tfn.net/HealthGazette/smoke.html Short description by a doctor of the effects of smoking on health and quality of life. |
 Health Effects of Active Smoking - http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/fandi/c03.htm Complete book chapter on health effects of cigarettes. |
 Does Tobacco Use Cause Other (non-malignant) Disease? - http://smokinglungs.com/otherdis.htm Tobacco use actually claims more lives via tobacco-caused diseases other than cancer. |
 Smoking: The Health Effects - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/medical_notes/473673.stm 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 Increases Anxiety - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1010221.stm 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. |
 BBC News: Grim toll of smoking - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/536633.stm More than 122,000 British smokers will die prematurely in the year 2000 from a smoking-related disease; article explains. |
 Tobacco Use: United States, 1900-1999 - http://www.cancernetwork.com/journals/oncology/o9912d.htm From the Cancer Network, a survey of smoking trends and their effects during the 20th century. |
 Tobacco BBS Health Information Page - http://www.tobacco.org/resources/health/ Annotated collection of links on health effects of firsthand and secondhand smoking, spit tobacco, quitting. |
 Smoking and Diabetes - http://www.diabetes.org/type-1-diabetes/smoking.jsp Facts from the American Diabetes Association. |
 Cigarette Anyone? - http://www.emphysema.net/my.html Firsthand accounts of what it is like to live with the diseases caused by cigarettes. |
 Risks of Dying From Smoking - http://www1.worldbank.org/tobacco/Presentations/Presentation1/slide1.htm Slide presentation outlines individual risks, social trends. |
 Facts About Nicotine and Tobacco Products - http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA_Notes/NNVol13N3/tearoff.html From NIH, brief presentation of effects of nicotine and tobacco products. |
 Tobacco Mortality - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter3/Chap3MORTALITY.html Factsheet; all sources cited. |
 Other Health Problems - http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter11/table_of_contents_chap11.html From cataracts to diabetes, from osteoporosis to skin disorders, the other health effects of tobacco products. |
 Spinal cord injury: Smoking and SCI - http://www.spinalinjury.net/html/_smoking_and_sci.html For SCI survivors who smoke there's even more bad news and more ill health effects than general population. |
 Active and Passive Tobacco Exposure: A Serious Pediatric Health Problem - http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=1213 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. |
 The Irreversible Health Effects of Cigarettes - http://www.acsh.org/publications/pubID.377/pub_detail.asp Pamphlet from ACSH. Quitting greatly reduces risks, but some effects of smoking are permanent. |
 Tobacco or Health: The Consequences of Tobacco Use - http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-28813-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html Summary of health effects, costs, effects on environment, with focus on Canada. |
 Worldwide Trends in Tobacco Consumption and Mortality - http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/tobacco/who-tobacco.htm WHO report outlines effects of tobacco globally, identifies trends. |
 World Tobacco Victims Memorial - http://www.tobaccovictims.org A memorial devoted to victims of tobacco products. |
 Diagnose-Me: Conditions: Cigarette Smoke Damage - http://www.diagnose-me.com/cond/C211471.html Lists diseases caused by tobacco propducts, and provides a brief description of each. |
 InfoFries Science Central: The Health Effects of Smoking - http://www.geocities.com/infofries/science/smoking.html A Flash presentation on the health effects of smoking. Includes relevant pictures and facts. |
 He Wanted You to Know - http://www.sptimes.com/News/61599/Floridian/He_wanted_you_to_know.shtml 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. |
 Smoking Caused Disability - http://jech.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/54/8/566 Smoking not only shortens life, it increases number of years of disability. This research analysis estimates how much increased disability is caused by smoking. |
 Smokers Get Ill Sooner, Study Says - http://no-smoking.org/june01/06-25-01-4.html 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. |
 Cigarettes and Asbestos - http://bg-law.com/cigarettes.asp A short summary of the facts. Site is run by attorneys. |
 The Whole Truth About Smoking - http://www.femail.co.uk/pages/standard/article.html?in_article_id=104616&in_page_id=179 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. |
 Smoking can Lead to Blindness - http://www.mdsupport.org/library/nosmoke.html Smoking and macular degeneration, cataracts, loss of hearing, and loss of night visioin. |
 All about tobacco facts, smoking cancer, epidemiology and quitting - http://www.tobacco-facts.info 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. |
 Fire Injuries, Disasters, and Costs from Cigarettes and Cigarette Lights fires - http://epm-leistikow.ucdavis.edu/SMOKINGFIRES.HTM Scientific paper estimates the injuries, deaths, and costs from smoking-attributable files. |
 Smoking Deaths Not Overstated, Re-Analysis Shows - http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/284/6/706 Refuting claims by the tobacco industry that death estimates from smoking are inflated, the American Medical Association re-analyzes the data. |
 Where There's Smoking, There's Fire - http://masspirg.org/MA.asp?id2=4241&id3=MA 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. |
 Mortality Attributable to Tobacco Use in Canada, 1994 and 1996 - http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/publicat/cdic-mcc/20-3/b_e.html Using data from the National Population Health Survey and the Canadian Mortality Database, estimates national and regional smoking-attributable deaths for 1994 and 1996. |
 How Smoking Affects The Way You Look - http://oldash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact10.html ASH-UK factsheet covers how smoking affects the skin, body shape, and weight. |
 Smoking Statistics: Illness and Death - http://oldash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact02.html Concise factsheet from ASH-UK boils it all down: what cigarettes do to the customer. |