Brain and Nervous System
BBC News: Nicotine Help for Tourette's, Cognitive Effects of Nicotine, Nicotine Metabolite Shows Promise for Improving Me, Nicotine Studied as Treatment for Brain Disorders, Nicotine-Like Drugs Can Enhance Learning and Memor, PLoS Biology: Nicotine as Therapy, Smoking Causes Mental Decline, Smoking Damages Your IQ, Smoking Does Not Protect Against Dementia or Alzhe, Smoking Increase Risk of Alzheimer's Disease
By Source of Exposure
Cigar and Pipe Smoking, Cigarette Smoking, Secondhand Smoke, Smokeless Tobacco
Cancer
Breast, Lung, Mouth and Throat, American Cancer Society - Cancer Statistics, American Cancer Society: Harmful Effects of Tobacc, Cancer.gov - Tobacco and Cancer, Cigarette Smoke Causes Breaks in DNA and Defects t, Dying of Cancer, She Used Her Last Days to Warn Ki, Most Cancer Is Made, Not Born, OncoLink: Smoking and Cancer, Paternal Smoking and Cancer among Children of Nons, Prostate Cancer and Smoking, Scots Tobacco Death Toll Studied
Cardiovascular System
Secondhand Smoke, American Heart Association: Cigarette Smoking And , Cigarettes Cause Heart Disease in Young People, Ex-Smokers May Have Irreversible Damage To Arterie, How to prevent heart disease, Preventing Heart Disease - Smoking, Six-month Public Smoking Ban Slashes Heart Attack , Smoking and Cardiovascular Disease, Smoking and Stroke: A Caustive Role, Smoking, the Heart, and Circulation, Stroke Risk Increases With Every Cigarette Smoked
Mouth and Throat
Cigar and Pipe Smoking are as Dangerous as Cigaret, Cigar and Pipes Cause Tooth and Gum Disease, Cigarettes Cause Dental Treatment Failure, How Many Teeth Are In That Cigarette Pack, Oral Effects of Tobacco, Smoking-Attributable Periodontitis in the United , Tobacco & Nicotine & Dental Health, Tobacco and Dental Problems, Tobacco and Periodontal Diseases, Tobacco and Your Oral Health
Reproduction and Pregnancy
Fetal Nicotine or Cocaine Exposure: Which one is W, Health Effects On the Unborn Baby, Maternal Smoking and Infant Birth Weight, Smoking and Impotence, Smoking and Reproductive Life
Respiratory System
Personal Stories, American Lung Association: General Smoking Informa, Easy Rider Ain't So Easy: A Living With COPD , NIEHS Asthma Prevention: Cigarette Smoke, Smoking and Respiratory Disease, Smoking and Respiratory Disease, Specimen 156.9: Lung: Emphysema
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.
Active and Passive Tobacco Exposure: A Serious Ped
Report from the American Heart Association covers effects of smoking, secondhand smoke, and smokeless tobacco on young people. Effects include cardiovascular and respiratory disease, low birth weight, infant mortality, and problems in the oral cavity.
All about tobacco facts, smoking cancer, epidemiol
The facts on tobacco products and cancer of the larynx, lung, and mouth, emphysema, epidemology, and how to quit; information and graphic pictures from a Kentucky physician.
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.
Berkeley Economic Research Associates (BERA)
Offers a set of statistics-based reports on effects of smoking.
Cigarette Anyone?
Firsthand accounts of what it is like to live with the diseases caused by cigarettes.
Cigarette Smoking-Attributable Morbidity --- Unite
Most reports focus on how many people are killed by tobacco products; this report estimates how much disease cigarettes cause: tobacco products give more than 8.6 million Americans serious diseases every year.
Cigarettes and Asbestos
A short summary of the facts. Site is run by attorneys.
Diagnose-Me: Conditions: Cigarette Smoke Damage
Lists diseases caused by tobacco propducts, and provides a brief description of each.
Does Tobacco Use Cause Other (non-malignant) Disea
Tobacco use actually claims more lives via tobacco-caused diseases other than cancer.
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.
Fire Injuries, Disasters, and Costs from Cigarette
Scientific paper estimates the injuries, deaths, and costs from smoking-attributable files.
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.
Health Effects of Active Smoking
Complete book chapter on health effects of cigarettes.
HOT Program
Hazards of Tobacco (HOT) video; requires RealPayer. Features speakers who've undergone surgical removal of their larynxes, who demonstrate one of tobacco's effects.
How Smoking Affects The Way You Look
ASH-UK factsheet covers how smoking affects the skin, body shape, and weight.
Just the Facts
Very short factsheet on health effects of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
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.
Mortality Attributable to Tobacco Use in Canada, 1
Using data from the National Population Health Survey and the Canadian Mortality Database, estimates national and regional smoking-attributable deaths for 1994 and 1996.
Mortality from Smoking in Developed Countries 1950
Latest edition of massive tome; content in PDF format.
Other Health Problems
From cataracts to diabetes, from osteoporosis to skin disorders, the other health effects of tobacco products.
Premature Skin Wrinkling And Cigarette Smoking
Recent research on how tobacco products cause face wrinkles in young people.
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.
Risks of Dying From Smoking
Slide presentation outlines individual risks, social trends.
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.
Smoking
Short description by a doctor of the effects of smoking on health and quality of life.
Smoking and Diabetes
Facts from the American Diabetes Association.
Smoking and Disease, Ash-UK basic facts #2
Factsheet uses UK numbers to demonstrate health effects of smoking.
Smoking and injuries
Research shows that cigarette smoking is a risk factor for exercise-related injuries.
Smoking can Lead to Blindness
Smoking and macular degeneration, cataracts, loss of hearing, and loss of night visioin.
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 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 of Tobacco
Discussion, graphics, and analysis of tobacco use, disease, and death.
Smoking Statistics: Illness and Death
Concise factsheet from ASH-UK boils it all down: what cigarettes do to the customer.
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.
Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential
Cigarette Smoking-Attributable Mortality and Years of Potential Life Lost -- United States, 1990. CDC analysis.
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.
South Carolina Department of Alcohol and Other Dru
"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.
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.
Surgeon General's Report 2004 - The Health Co
Latest report finds that cigarettes and tobacco products cause more diseases than previously known; site features database of 1600 key scientific articles and interactive animation based on the latest findings that outlines the effects of smoking on different organs of the body.
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?
The Irreversible Health Effects of Cigarettes
Pamphlet from ACSH. Quitting greatly reduces risks, but some effects of smoking are permanent.
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.
Tobacco BBS Health Information Page
Annotated collection of links on health effects of firsthand and secondhand smoking, spit tobacco, quitting.
Tobacco Mortality
Factsheet; all sources cited.
Tobacco or Health: The Consequences of Tabacco Use
Summary of health effects, costs, effects on environment, with focus on Canada.
Tobacco Use: United States, 1900-1999
From the Cancer Network, a survey of smoking trends and their effects during the 20th century.
webmd.com - Yet Another Reason to Put That Cigaret
Cigarettes are the leading cause of an infection that can cause severe pneumonia or meningitis.
WebMD: Smoking Cessation
Effects of cigarettes and other tobacco products. Some tips for quitting.
Where There's Smoking, There's Fire
One-third of all fatal household fires in Massachusetts began with a cigarette according this MASSPIRG report. Features map of 1500 cigarette-related fires and assesses the cost.
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."
World Tobacco Victims Memorial
A memorial devoted to victims of tobacco products.
Worldwide Trends in Tobacco Consumption and Mortal
WHO report outlines effects of tobacco globally, identifies trends.
Zep's Why Quit Smoking site
Personal stories of people who died from cigarette smoking.