American Council on Science and Health
Articles on smoking, tobacco, and public policy.
http://www.acsh.org/tobacco/index.html
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Smoking Does Not Protect Against Dementia or Alzheimer's Disease
Contrary to suggestions from previous research, this study of over 34,000 subjects found no effect of smoking on senility or Alzheimer's. The previous suggestions that it did came from flawed studies, say the authors.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2000-04/BMJ-Sdnp-2004100.php
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Smoking's Deadly Effects
Statistics don't tell the whole story of tobacco disease and death. That's why PBS is running a program on Pam Laffin, a woman who tells her own story of emphysema caused by tobacco products. The story of how she got started smoking, how she discovered
http://www.pbs.org/healthweek/featurep3a_320.htm
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Zep's Why Quit Smoking site
Personal stories of people who died from cigarette smoking.
http://members.lycos.co.uk/Zep_/
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The Irreversible Health Effects of Cigarettes
Pamphlet from ACSH. Quitting greatly reduces risks, but some effects of smoking are permanent, including effects on the lungs, heart, eyes, throat, urinary tract, digestive organs, bones and joints, and the skin.
http://www.acsh.org/publications/booklets/iesmoke.html
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Larynx Cancer and Smoking
Doctor explains how his patients who smoke get invasive cancer of the voice box (larynx); images and video of a biopsy.
http://www.entusa.com/voice_box_cancer.htm
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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
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Smoking and Respiratory Disease
Information from the Anti-Cancer Council of Victoria, Australia. Factsheet, diagrams, and basic information.
http://www.cancersa.org.au/i-cms?page=1.6.36.368.745
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Lung Cancer and Cigarette Smoking
Thoracic surgeon Fred Grannis MD provides smokers, lung cancer patients and their families with information on cigarettes, smoking, cessation, and lung cancer risk, diagnosis, and treatment. Webpage design by one of his patients.
http://www.smokinglungs.com/
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South Carolina Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services: Tobacco Use
"Tobacco use is the nation's deadliest addiction. Smoking cigarettes is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. Over 400,000 Americans die every year from tobacco use. More people die from tobacco than from AIDS, car accidents, alcohol, su
http://www.scprevents.org/web/infosite/readroom/clearing.html
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