- Cancer Facts and Figures
Concise summary from the American Cancer Society of tobacco use, cigarettes, trends in smoking, profiling smokers, costs of tobacco, nicotine addiction, secondhand smoke, spit tobacco, and industrial hazards.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/stt/stt_0.asp
- Dying of Cancer, She Used Her Last Days to Warn Kids
At age 42, Barb Tarbox used her last few months of life to go on a speaking tour of Canada schools, to tell them what it's like to be dying of cancer caused by cigarettes.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/obit/tarbox_barb/
- He Wanted You to Know
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.
http://www.sptimes.com:80/News/61599/Floridian/He_wanted_you_to_know.shtml
- M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - Smoking, Tobacco & Cancer
University of Texas medical center factsheets on effects of smoking and tobacco, and tips and support for quitting. One-third of M. D. Anderson patients have tobacco-related cancers.
http://www.mdanderson.org/topics/smoking
- Nicotine Addiction And Cigarettes
American Lung Association info sheets on smoking, nicotine, and related topics: does smoking help people relax? What quitting methods work?
http://www.lungusa.org/tobacco/tobacco_general_index.html
- Quit Victoria
"Tobacco smoking is the single most important cause of ill health and premature death in Australia." Not just quitting information -- health questions answered; effects of cigarettes; quit evaluation studies; information in languages other than English; smokefree workplaces and dining.
http://www.quit.org.au/
- 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.smokingisugly.com
- Sylvester Stallone's agreement
Letter from Stallone documenting his cigarette product placement deal with Brown and Williamson Tobacco.
http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/mfs93f00
- TCSG - Tobacco and The Elderly
Papers and factsheets on: tobacco and minorities, state tobacco settlement funds, tobacco and older persons.
http://www.tcsg.org/tobacco.htm
- thetruth.com
American Legacy Foundation tobacco education campaign covers cigarettes, smoking, other tobacco products. "The truth about how the cigarette industry operates".
http://www.thetruth.com/
- Tobacco BBS
Cigarettes, tobacco, and smoking-related news and issues, addresses, tobacco history, information on quitting, and a quote of the day section.
http://www.tobacco.org/
- Tobacco or Health
Kind of a home page for tobacco from the World Health Organization. "Tobacco causes six per cent of all deaths in the world and the toll is increasing rapidly. Tobacco causes more deaths than all other forms of substance abuse combined." Quarterly bulletin, fact sheets, white papers, breakdown of smoking and tobacco disease and death by country.
http://www.who.ch/psa/toh.htm
- Tobacco Web
From Australia: cigarettes, tobacco history; current trends; smoking and health, the tobacco industry -- recent revelations; secondhand smoke; young people and smoking; smoking in the workplace; tqitting smoking.
http://www.nswcc.org.au/editorial.asp?pageid=369
- TobaccoFree
Offers smoking cessation tips, research results, and tips for staying smoke free.
http://www.tobaccofree.org/
- WebMD: Smoking
Effects of cigarettes and other tobacco products; who smokes? why do smokers fail to quit? what are methods for quitting? what should smokers do until they quit? Some tips for quitting.
http://my.webmd.com/content/dmk/dmk_article_40081
- WHO: World Tobacco Facts
Terse fact sheet from the World Health Organization's tobacco conference. Tobacco will kill 10 million people a year, 70% of them in developing countries, within a generation.
http://www.who.ch/psa/pres3.htm
- WhyQuit - Cold Turkey Quitting
A support group and education forum dedicated exclusively to the science and art of successful abrupt nicotine cessation.
http://whyquit.com/
- World No Tobacco Day
Provides an opportunity to educate about the effects of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
http://www.wntd.com/
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