- 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/
- Man Learned Firsthand One Effect of Smoking
Tobacco products (both cigaretets and spit tobacco) cause Buergers disease, which "plugs up your arteries and veins"; this is the story of a 21 year old who lost his left leg from it.
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=4321859&BRD=258&PAG=461&dept_id=438987&rfi=6
- Meds.com: Lung Cancer Library
Both physician and patient versions of information sheets on smoking, secondhand smoke, lung cancer, metastases, clinical trials, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and short topics. The facts.
http://www.meds.com/lung/lunginfo.html
- Montana: Deaths Up from Lung Cancer
Doctor reports "it's just a relentless stream of incurable cancers" resulting from a surge in smoking by women during the 1970s.
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2002/12/13/build/local/68-smoking.inc
- Most Cancer Is Made, Not Born
Recent research shows that most cancer is caused by environmental exposure to carcinogens, not from preprogrammed genes; smoking is the single-most important avoidable cause of cancer and is directly responsible for 30 percent of all cases.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/08/10/ED9161.DTL
- NCI: What You Need To Know About Lung Cancer
Pamphlet format. Covers the disease, who's at risk, recognizing symptoms, diagnosing lung cancer, the stages of the disease, treatment, side effects.
http://cancernet.nci.nih.gov/wyntk_pubs/lung.htm
- Oral Cancer: The Tobacco Connection
Covers the problem, death and disease, demographics, types of tobacco, nicotine and addiction, quitting tobacco, tobacco industry conduct, tobacco advertising, and tobacco economics.
http://www.oralcancerfoundation.org/tobacco_menu.htm
- 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
- Prostate Cancer and Smoking
Slides from a college lecture discusses the association.
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec4721/index.htm
- Risks of Dying From Smoking
Slide presentation outlines individual risks, social trends.
http://www1.worldbank.org/tobacco/Presentations/Presentation1/slide1.htm
- Scots Tobacco Death Toll Studied
Scotland's title as Europe's lung cancer capital has come under the spotlight at a major anti-smoking conference.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/379366.stm
- 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
- Smoking and Breast Cancer
Recent research shows an association between smoking and breast cancer.
http://bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7359/298/d
- 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 Damage
From the Australian National Tobacco Campaign, a concise outline of the different ways that cigarettes damage the body.
http://www.quitnow.info.au/damage/damage.html
- 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
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