- 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
- Smoking Increase Risk of Alzheimer's Disease
Recent research finds that tobacco products increase Alzheimer's disease on some populations, but have no effect on other populations.
http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/news/8525697700573E1885256C010043BDDC?OpenDocument&c=Smoking%20Related%20Disorders&count=10&id=48dde4a73e09a969852568880078c249
- Smoking Increases Anxiety
Smoking is supposed to calm the nerves, but researchers have found evidence that it might have the opposite effect. BBS News article on recent research.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1010221.stm
- Smoking Increases Skin Cancer Risk
Tobacco products triple the risk of developing a common form of skin cancer, according to a new study.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk:80/et?ac=000820928759152&rtmo=VDJSM8fK&atmo=99999999&pg=/et/01/1/4/ecnsmok04.html
- Smoking of Tobacco
Discussion, graphics, and analysis of tobacco use, disease, and death.
http://my.webmd.com/printing/dmk/dmk_article_1459455
- 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.pbs.org/healthweek/featurep3a_320.htm
- Smoking: The Health Effects
Smokers in their 30s and 40s are five times more likely to have a heart attack than non-smokers. Half of all smoking deaths are in middle age. Article from the BBC news summarizes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/medical_notes/473673.stm
- 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, suicides, homicides, fires, and illegal drugs combined." Summary of the effects of tobacco use.
http://www.scprevents.org/web/infosite/readroom/clearing.html
- Specimen 156.9: Lung: Emphysema
From a library of medical images, a lung with emphysema ("smoker's lung").
http://www.med.unsw.edu.au/pathology/Pathmus/F0839044.htm
- 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.
http://www.spinalinjury.net/html/_smoking_and_sci.html
- The Burden of Illness From Tobacco
Summary in the form of a FAQ, with answers to such questions as: how do we know that an agency (such as tobacco) can cause disease? What range of diseases does tobacco cause?
http://www.health.usyd.edu.au/tob21c/m02_faqs.html
- The Connection Between Smoking and Heart Disease
What cigarettes and other tobacco products do to the heart and arteries; how they cause hypertension, stroke, and heart disease.
http://www.heartinfo.com/search/display.asp?Id=256&header=T_know.gif&caller=
- The Hurt Never Goes Away
Over 400,000 Americans die each year due to tobacco use. COST has provided a way for the survivors to express themselves, share their pain.
http://www.costkids.org/tobacco/tobacco/tobaccoframeset.htm
- The Whole Truth About Smoking
New research find that the tobacco industry does a good job in deceiving the public about the full health risks of smoking; a rundown of 6 myths about smoking and the facts.
http://www.femail.co.uk/pages/standard/article.html?in_article_id=104616&in_page_id=179
- Tobacco BBS Health Information Page
Annotated collection of links on health effects of firsthand and secondhand smoking, spit tobacco, quitting.
http://www.tobacco.org/resources/health/
- Tobacco May Be a Cause of Mental Illness
Article summarizes increasing evidence from larger research studies that tobacco products cause anxiety, depression, phobias, and alcohol and drug dependence.
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Site=TO&Date=20020520&Category=COLUMNIST29&ArtNo=105190069&Ref=AR
- Tobacco Mortality
Factsheet; all sources cited.
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter3/Chap3MORTALITY.html
- Tobacco Use: United States, 1900-1999
From the Cancer Network, a survey of smoking trends and their effects during the 20th century.
http://www.cancernetwork.com/journals/oncology/o9912d.htm
- WHO: The Tobacco Epidemic
The World Health Organization (WHO) summarizes the situation worldwide: "each year, tobacco causes about 3.5 million deaths throughout the world; this will increase to 10 million annual deaths during the 2020s, with seven million of these deaths occurring in developing countries. Half of these unnecessary deaths are occurring in middle age (35-69), robbing those killed of around 22 years of life."
http://www.who.ch/inf/pr/1997/pr97-61.html
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