Search The Directory The Web for Home > Health > Addictions > Substance Abuse > Tobacco > Effects New! Submit a site   Categories: Costs (46) Dental (10)     whatUseek Collection Sites (submit a site ):   Give your site great placement in this category in as little as two business days!     whatUseek Directory Site Listings:   ACSH: Tobacco - The American Council on Science and Health has been a leader in restoring scienctific fact and context to health issues, both in exposing overstated and understated risks. This page covers tobacco, including what the warning label doesn't tell you.   AHC News Alert - Collection of health stories, including extensive coverage of tobacco.   Active and Passive Tobacco Exposure: A Serious Pediatric Health Problem - Report from the American Heart Association. Effects of firsthand and secondhand smoke on young people: hearts, lungs, low birth weight, infant mortality, respiratory infections.   American Cancer Society-Cancer Facts and Figures 1998: Tobacco Use - Facts from the ACS; e.g. most tobacco deaths are not cancer deaths; more women have died from lung cancer than breast cancer since 1987; tobacco causes one of every five deaths in America; tobacco costs the U.S. more than $100 billion a year.   American Heart Association: Cigarette Smoking And Cardiovascular Diseases - Cigarettes are the most important preventable cause of premature death in the United State. Most of those deaths are from heart disease, not cancer. The facts from the AHA.   Asbestos and Cigarettes - Asbestos and cigarettes both cause lung cancer, but some types of lung cancer are specific to one cause. A short summary of the facts. Site is run by attorneys who represent people who have cancer from asbestos exposure.   BBC News: Grim toll of smoking - More than 122,000 British smokers will die prematurely in the year 2000 from a smoking-related disease; article explains.   Cardiology: Smoking - Factsheets from Fort Sanders Regional Medical Center.   Cigarette Anyone? - Ordinary people tell firsthand what it's like to live with the diseases caused by cigarettes.   Cigarettes cause Invasive Pneumococcal Disease - Cigarettes are the leading cause of an infection that can cause severe pneumonia or meningitis: pneumococcal infections.   Cigarettes cause cancer - Article in Chemistry and Industry magazine. For years, the industry argued that the connection between smoking and cancer was "merely epidemiological". This article summarizes the p53 gene damage that establishes a mechanism.   Diseases related to smoking - Part of a collecction of quit smoking resources.   Does Tobacco Use Cause Other (non-malignant) Disease? - Tobacco use actually claims more lives via tobacco-caused diseases other than cancer.   Don't Smoke! - Dedicated to providing people information about tobacco. Requires Shockwave.   Easy Rider Ain't So Easy: A Living With COPD Story - I am a 50 year old man, diagnosed with COPD -- severe emphysema, chronic bronchitis and a moderate asthmatic component. I started smoking when I was about 14 years old..."   Effect of Tobacco Consumption on Hepatic Histological Lesions - Research examines effect of smoking on patients with hepatitis.   Effects of Tobacco Use On the Unborn Baby - Summary of a study performed by the Indiana State Department of Health.   Ex-Smokers May Have Irreversible Damage To Arteries - New research from one of the most comprehensive studies indicates that while most risks subside after quitting, some damage is not reversible.   Face the Faces - The human toll of tobacco, from INFACT. Started in response to a tobacco executive's statement that the people who die each year from tobacco are just a "computer-generated number." This site shows some of the people who are dead or dying of diseases caused by tobacco. Pictures are accompanied by text written by friends and family.   Facts About Nicotine and Tobacco Products - From NIH, brief presentation of effects of nicotine and tobacco products.     [ 1 2 3 4 5 6 ] Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.   Submit a Site - Open Directory Project - Become an Editor

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