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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.
www.spinalinjury.net
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.
www.tobacco-facts.info
Firsthand accounts of what it is like to live with the diseases caused by cigarettes.
www.emphysema.net
Does Tobacco Use Cause Other (non-malignant) Disease?
Tobacco use actually claims more lives via tobacco-caused diseases other than cancer.
smokinglungs.com
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.
www.infact.org
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.
news.bbc.co.uk
Tobacco Use: United States, 1900-1999
From the Cancer Network, a survey of smoking trends and their effects during the 20th century.
www.cancernetwork.com
Factsheet; all sources cited.
www.globalink.org
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.
no-smoking.org
Tobacco BBS Health Information Page
Annotated collection of links on health effects of firsthand and secondhand smoking, spit tobacco, quitting.
www.tobacco.org
Where There's Smoking, There's Fire
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.
masspirg.org
Fire Injuries, Disasters, and Costs from Cigarettes and Cigarette Lights fires
Scientific paper estimates the injuries, deaths, and costs from smoking-attributable files.
epm-leistikow.ucdavis.edu
Facts About Nicotine and Tobacco Products
From NIH, brief presentation of effects of nicotine and tobacco products.
www.nida.nih.gov
Slide presentation outlines individual risks, social trends.
www1.worldbank.org
World Tobacco Victims Memorial
A memorial devoted to victims of tobacco products.
www.tobaccovictims.org