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Nicotine Addiction Can Start Within A Few Days And After Just A Few Cigarettes
Recent research shows that cigarette products cause addiction much faster than was previously believed, in just a few doses.
http://www.cfah.org/hbns/newsrelease/nicot...
Tobacco in Australia: Facts and Issues
A complete, online, book, with all citations to the literature. Covers cigarettes, other tobacco products; statistics and trends; health effects; smoking in the workplace and public places; public policy; addiction; quitting; anti-smoking campaigns; and the tobacco industry.
http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/welcome....
Tobacco Industry Hall of Shame
List of stars and performers killed by tobacco.
http://roswell.tobaccodocuments.org/hall_o...
Statement on Nicotine-Containing Cigarettes by David A. Kessler, M.D.
Provides information on industry manipulation and control of nicotine in cigarettes.
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/SPEECH/SPE00...
"Crack" Nicotine in Cigarettes Varies Widely
New research measures amount of free-base nicotine in "the modern cigarette, a highly engineered nicotine delivery device".
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?...
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - 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
'Impact Booster': Tobacco Firm Shows How Ammonia Spurs Delivery of Nicotine
1996 Pulitzer prize-winning reporting on how the tobacco industry uses ammonia to engineer cigarettes for addiction.
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1996/national...
WhyQuit - Cold Turkey Quitting
A support group quitting forum and education program devoted to the science, psychology and art of abrupt nicotine cessation.
http://whyquit.com/
Tobacco Control Online
A quarterly scientific journal covering all aspects of tobacco use prevention and control.
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/
Research Report: Nicotine Addiction
Information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse about nicotine, addiction, the extent and impact of tobacco use, how nicotine delivers its effect, consequences of continued use, treatments, and gender differences.
http://www.drugabuse.gov/researchreports/n...
Nicotine Addiction in Britain
Extensive report produced by the Royal College of Physicians. "Nicotine addiction is one of the major reasons why people continue to smoke cigarettes, and cigarettes are in reality extremely effective and closely controlled nicotine delivery devices".
http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/pubs/books/nico...
Reducing the Addictiveness of Cigarettes
Can cigarettes be made less addictive? Scientific paper examines the question.
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full...
Smoking costs factsheet
From the Missouri Health Department. Covers costs from treating disease, fires, lost productivity, workplace injuries.
http://www.dhss.mo.gov/SmokingAndTobacco/F...
Ammonia Added to Cigarettes Can Significantly Boost Availability of Nicotine
Independent research confirms that ammonia added to ciarettes can boost the availability of nicotine up to 100 times.
http://www.ndsn.org/AUGUST97/AMMONIA.html
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
Tobacco Free Initiative
World Health Organization effort against use of tobacco.
http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/
Nicotine and the Tobacco Industry
Science Week article focuses on 3 decades of tobacco industry efforts to engineer cigarettes for addiction.
http://scienceweek.com/swfr047.htm
The Science Behind Tobacco: Health and Smoking
Information about nictoine delivery, addiction, medical consequences, and differences based on culture, age, and gender.
http://www.lsc.org/tobacco/health/intro_he...
Anti-smoking group Tobaccofree.org, founded by advcate Patrick Reynolds (RJ Reynolds' anti-tobacco grandson)
Anti-smoking group offers youth a tobacco prevention message for grades 6-12, educational videos, quit smoking tips, anti-tobacco motivational speakers, and related resources. Founded by Patrick Reynolds.
http://www.tobaccofree.org/
The National Center for Tobacco-Free Older Person
Advocacy group and center for conducting research, education and training to increase public awareness of the effects of tobacco on older persons and to reduce smoking and exposure to secondhand smoke by older persons. Includes fact sheets with data about smoking among older persons, and information specific for older persons about tobacco-related health problems, smoking cessation, and tobacco settlement funds.
http://www.tcsg.org/tobacco.htm
The Tobacco Reference Guide
Online book provides quotes, summaries, and factsheets about hazards of smoking.
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/
Report of the UK Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health
Report covers the scientific evidence on active smoking, passive smoking, nicotine addiction, price and marketing of cigarettes and other tobacco products, cessation, key conclusions.
http://www.archive.official-documents.co.u...
Tobacco: The Moral Issues
Short paper by Joseph Califano, former secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
http://www.americamagazine.org/articles/ca...
Harris Poll: Tobacco Addiction
Reveals that 70% of all people still smoking have tried to quit, on average four times, and most are aware of tobacco's health effects; poll results called a metric of the power of tobacco addiction.
http://www.harriszone.com/press/PowerOfTob...
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/
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/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK...
eMedicine - Nicotine Addiction
Medical facts on the physiology of nicotine addiction, and the effect tobacco products have on the brain, lungs, and other vital organs, and a treatment options section.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1642.htm
Nicotine Addiction in Britain
Complete online book by the Royal College of Physicians; covers physical. pharmacological, and psychological effects; addiction; the smoker's career; regulation of intake; treatment; regulatory approaches; recommendations.
http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/pubs/books/nico...
WHO: The Tobacco Atlas
History of tobacco, types of use, male and female smoking, youth, cigarette consumption, health effects, secondhand smoke, deaths, costs; the trade, the industry, smuggling, tobacco promotion and marketing, Internet sales, politics; activism, research, tobacco control, policy initiatives; quitting, litigation, pricing, and futures.
http://www.who.int/tobacco/statistics/toba...
Nicotine and Addiction
ASH-UK factsheet on nicotine, its properties, difficulty in quitting, measures of dependence, withdrawal systems, genetic influence, and tobacco industry recognition of the its importance.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html...
Nicotine Addiction
Concise factsheet.
http://www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/nicaddct...
World No Tobacco Day
Provides an opportunity to educate about the effects of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
http://www.wntd.com/
OncoLink: The Control and Manipulation of Nicotine and Cigarettes
1994 news article. Kessler report on how the tobacco industry controls and manipulates nicotine in its product.
http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/gvo31a0...
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?page...
NIDA Notes - A Collection of Articles on Nicotine Addiction
About 12 items summarizing various research from 1995 to 2000.
http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA_Notes/NN0031....
Infofax - Cigarettes and Other Nicotine Products
NIH short summary of nicotine effects.
http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofax/tobacco.ht...
20th Century Tobacco Advertisement Collection
Over 8,000 slides containing tobacco advertisements, tobacco industry issue ads, and anti-smoking ads.
http://roswell.tobaccodocuments.org/
Nicotine Junkies
Information on kids and smoking, facts about smoking and addiction.
http://whyfiles.org/024nicotine/
Low Tar Exposed
Site explains why "low tar", "light" and "mild" cigarettes are just as harmful as regular cigarettes.
http://www.lowtarexposed.org/
ABC DayOne: Smoke Screen
Now-famous segment on nicotine manipulation in cigarettes.
http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/abctrans...
American Cancer Society - Cancer Statistics
Facts and figures, available in pdf format.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/stt/stt_0.as...
Addicted to Nicotine: A National Research Forum
Includes presentation summaries of papers presented at the conference held in 2001 at the (US) National Institutes of Health. Topics include nicotine delivery systems, pharmacology, individual and environmental risk factors, the psychobiology of addition, and treatment of nicotine dependence.
http://www.nida.nih.gov/meetsum/nicotine/N...
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