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- http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/basic02.html
- Smoking and Disease, Ash-UK basic facts #2 - Factsheet uses UK numbers to demonstrate health effects of smoking.
- http://www.pbs.org/healthweek/featurep3a_320.htm
- 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 she had the disease, and how she lives her live now with one lung, is more compelling sometimes than any amount of statistics.
- http://www.smokingisugly.com
- Smoking Is Ugly - Created and sustained by Christy Turlington, an online resource guide, providing information and links to numerous lung cancer and smoking-cessation related websites. SmokingIsUgly.com is part of Turlington's campaign to raise awareness about the effects of smoking, smoking related diseases and lung cancer.
- http://www.usmedicine.com/dailyNews.cfm?dailyID=24
- Women Face Unique Risks From Smoking Says Surgeon General's Report - The marked increase in the number of women who die each year from tobacco products has led the surgeon general to call smoking-related disease among women a full-blown epidemic.
- http://www.nsma.org.au/costs.htm
- Costs of Smoking in Australia - Community costs; direct costs; lives lost; disease and death; intangible costs; hospital costs; fires; other costs.
- http://www.ashaust.org.au/
- ASH Australia - Factsheets, letters, analysis, white papers, stories, comments, and newsletter cover tobacco control, tobacco disease, cancer, addiction, advocacy, media, youth smoking, films and entertainment, tobacco policy, and smokefree public places.
- http://texts.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft8489p25j&chunk.id=d0e1246
- smoking and Disease: The Tobacco Industry's Earliest Responses - Chapter from a book on the Brown and Williamson papers documents how the tobacco industry responded in the 1950s and 1960s to the emerging medical evidence about the product.
- http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/002032.htm
- MEDLINE: Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco - Topic in MEDLINE's medical encyclopedia covers effects, chemical componenents, diseases caused, quitting tobacco, with 4 poster-quality illustrations.
- http://www.onlineathens.com/1998/102298/1022.a3tobacco.html
- Former Surgeon General: Big Tobacco Attacked Efforts to Safeguard Public - The tobacco industry refused to cooperate with government efforts to reduce deaths and disease caused by smoking, the surgeon general under former President Jimmy Carter testified.
- http://www.hhs.state.ne.us/dpc/SmokingCancer.htm
- Nebraska HHS System: Cancer and Smoking Disease Research Program - Policies, restrictions, contact list, program timeline, and instructions for application.
- http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1858258.stm
- Smoking Health Issues "Still Ignored" - The deaths of five million people in the UK from smoking-related diseases have been partly blamed on decades of government inaction.
- http://www.livingwithcopd.co.uk/
- Living With Chronic Obstructive Airways Disease - Site for patients explaining the disease and its management. Stories from patients, glossary of terms, tips on stopping smoking. Drug company sponsored, but non promotional.
- http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/321/7257/371
- Operation Berkshire - Article from British Medical Journal. Internal documents from the tobacco industry show that in 1977 seven of the world's major tobacco companies conspired to promote "controversy" over smoking and disease, in an exercise called Operation Berkshire.
- http://www.cnn.com/HEALTH/9903/16/smoking/smoking.facts.html
- Most smokers dont think they have higher disease risk - [CNN]
- http://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/NN/
- The Reports of the Surgeon General of the United States - Archive of official reports and conference and workshop proceedings on topics related to public health, including AIDS, smoking, disease prevention, mental health, violence, breastfeeding, organ donation, and health care delivery.
- http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/diseases_conditions/respiratory/bronchitis.html
- Bronchitis - Article from TeensHealth explains this respiratory disease. Includes symptoms, causes, what doctors do, and smoking and bronchitis.
- http://www.howstuffworks.com/heart-attack.htm
- How Stuff Works - Carl Bianco M.D. provides a 6-part graphical in-depth look at heart disease, heart attacks and angina. Topics include atherosclerosis, hypertension, cholesterol, smoking, obesity, diabetes mellitus and stress.
- http://www.lungsc.org/
- American Lung Association of South Carolina - Provides educational programs for people with lung disease and their families; learn about programs or find information on lung disease, tobacco use and smoking cessation.
- http://www.hebs.co.uk/
- The Health Education Board for Scotland (HEBS) - Information including heart disease, cancer, stroke, mental health, HIV and sexual health, oral health, accidents and safety, smoking, diet, physical activity, alcohol misuse and drug misuse.
- http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/316/7135/881
- BMJ -- Smoking in public should be restricted. - "Smoking in public places should be restricted on the grounds of public health, concludes the report of the Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health--a group of independent scientific experts. Passive smoking causes lung cancer and ischaemic heart disease."
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