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Paternal Smoking and Cancer among Children of Nonsmoking Mothers - Scientific paper finds paternal smoking before conception increases risk of the children getting cancer, particularly acute leukemia and lymphoma.
 
Prenatal Smoking Increases Baby's Risk Of Cleft Palate - Cleft lip and palate are fairly serious birth defects. Besides affecting a child's appearance, cleft lip and palate hinder the ability to breathe, eat, hear and speak.
 
Preventing Heart Disease - Smoking - Short section on smoking and the hart.
 
Quality of Life and Smoking - Most smoking studies address specific health, morbidity, and mortality outcomes. Few studies have examined the effect of smoking and smoking cessation on quality of life. This collects a few such studies.
 
Quitting Really Does Lower Lung Cancer risk - November 30, 2000 - CDC measures reduced lung cancer as a result of California's reduced smoking.
 
Risks of Dying From Smoking - Slide presentation outlines individual risks, social trends.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Smokers Three Times More Likely To Get Pneumonia - Men and women who smoked more than 20 cigarette per day are almost three times more likely to get pneumonia according to recent research.
 
Smokers can and do die young! - Shows effects of smoking through photographs and stories of smokers, including those who died or are dying in their 30's. Images of diseased lungs; links to lung cancer and quit smoking support groups.
 
Smoking - Short description by a doctor of the effects of smoking on health and quality of life.
 
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.
 
Smoking Damage - From the Australian National Tobacco Campaign, a concise outline of the different ways that cigarettes damage the body.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
Smoking Increases Skin Cancer Risk - Tobacco products triple the risk of developing a common form of skin cancer, according to a new study.
 
Smoking Statistics: Illness and Death - Concise factsheet from ASH-UK boils it all down: what cigarettes do to the customer.
 
Smoking To Reduce Stress Has Opposite Effect - People who smoke to reduce stress may only be adding to their stress, according to a new review of the research.
 
Smoking and Impotence - Brief article on causes of impotence.
 
 
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