Knowledge: tobacco
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- Tobacco BBS
http://www.tobacco.org/ - Cigarettes, tobacco, and smoking-related news and issues, addresses, tobacco history, information on quitting, and a quote of the day section.
- thetruth.com
http://www.thetruth.com/ - American Legacy Foundation tobacco education campaign covers cigarettes, smoking, other tobacco products. "The truth about how the cigarette industry operates".
- Cancer Facts and Figures
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/stt/stt_0.asp - Concise summary from the American Cancer Society of tobacco use, cigarettes, trends in smoking, profiling smokers, costs of tobacco, nicotine addiction, secondhand smoke, spit tobacco, and industrial hazards.
- Quit Victoria
http://www.quit.org.au/ - "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.
- TobaccoFree
http://www.tobaccofree.org/ - Offers smoking cessation tips, research results, and tips for staying smoke free.
- WhyQuit - Cold Turkey Quitting
http://whyquit.com/ - A support group and education forum dedicated exclusively to the science and art of successful abrupt nicotine cessation.
- Nicotine and Addiction
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact09.html - 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.
- The Tobacco Reference Guide
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/ - Online book provides quotes, summaries, and factsheets about hazards of smoking.
- Smoking Is Ugly
http://www.smokingisugly.com - 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.
- M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - Tobacco & Cancer
http://www.mdanderson.org/topics/smoking - 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.
- Nicotine Addiction in Britain
http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/pubs/books/nicotine/2-physical.htm - 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".
- Tobacco in Australia: Facts and Issues
http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/welcome.htm - 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.
- TCSG - Tobacco and The Elderly
http://www.tcsg.org/tobacco.htm - Papers and factsheets on: tobacco and minorities, state tobacco settlement funds, tobacco and older persons.
- Tobacco Web
http://www.nswcc.org.au/editorial.asp?pageid=369 - 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.
- Nicotine Junkies
http://whyfiles.org/024nicotine/ - Information on kids and smoking, facts about smoking and addiction.
- WHO Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI)
http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/ - A WHO cabinet project created to focus international attention, resources and action on global tobacco use and problems caused by that use.
- Tobacco Control Online
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/ - A quarterly scientific journal covering all aspects of tobacco use prevention and control.
- Low Tar Exposed
http://www.lowtarexposed.org/ - Site explains why "low tar", "light" and "mild" cigarettes are just as harmful as regular cigarettes.
- WHO: The Tobacco Atlas
http://www.who.int/tobacco/statistics/tobacco_atlas/en/ - 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.
- Tobacco Advertising and Document Collections
http://roswell.tobaccodocuments.org/ - Growing set of resources presenting and organizing tobacco industry documents; shows what the industry says in private about youth, advertising, promotions; features a poster on the history of youth cigarette brands.
- Tobacco Industry Hall of Shame
http://roswell.tobaccodocuments.org/hall_of_shame.htm - List of stars and performers killed by tobacco.
- CDC's TIPS: Tobacco Information and Prevention Source
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/ - Maintained by the CDC's Office on Smoking and Health. Covers tobacco-related issues, statistics, news, research, data, reports, quitting tips, educational materials, publications, . Also sections dedicated to youth.
- Infofax - Cigarettes and Other Nicotine Products
http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofax/tobacco.html - NIH short summary of nicotine effects.
- Nicotine Addiction
http://www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/nicaddct.html - Concise factsheet.
- Nicotine Addiction Can Start Within A Few Days And After Just A Few Cigarettes
http://www.cfah.org/hbns/newsrelease/nicotine9-12-00.cfm - Recent research shows that cigarette products cause addiction much faster than was previously believed, in just a few doses.
- Ammonia Added to Cigarettes Can Significantly Boost Availability of Nicotine
http://www.ndsn.org/AUGUST97/AMMONIA.html - Independent research confirms that ammonia added to ciarettes can boost the availability of nicotine up to 100 times.
- 'Impact Booster': Tobacco Firm Shows How Ammonia Spurs Delivery of Nicotine
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1996/national-reporting/works/impact.html - 1996 Pulitzer prize-winning reporting on how the tobacco industry uses ammonia to engineer cigarettes for addiction.
- Statement on Nicotine-Containing Cigarettes by David A. Kessler, M.D.
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/SPEECH/SPE00052.htm - Provides information on industry manipulation and control of nicotine in cigarettes.
- "Crack" Nicotine in Cigarettes Varies Widely
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993990 - New research measures amount of free-base nicotine in "the modern cigarette, a highly engineered nicotine delivery device".
- ABC DayOne: Smoke Screen
http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/abctranscript.html - Now-famous segment on nicotine manipulation in cigarettes.
- Harris Poll: Tobacco Addiction
http://www.harriszone.com/press/PowerOfTobacco.html - 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.
- Reducing the Addictiveness of Cigarettes
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/7/3/281?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULT... - Can cigarettes be made less addictive? Scientific paper examines the question.
- Addicted to Nicotine: A National Research Forum
http://www.nida.nih.gov/meetsum/nicotine/Nicotine.html - 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.
- A Collection of Articles on Nicotine Addiction
http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA_Notes/NN0031.html - Articles about research studies funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
- eMedicine - Nicotine Addiction
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1642.htm - 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.
- Nicotine Addiction in Britain
http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/pubs/books/nicotine/ - 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.
- Research Report: Nicotine Addiction
http://www.drugabuse.gov/researchreports/nicotine/nicotine.html - 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.
- Report of the UK Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health
http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/doh/tobacco/report.htm - Report covers the scientific evidence on active smoking, passive smoking, nicotine addiction, price and marketing of cigarettes and other tobacco products, cessation, key conclusions.
- OncoLink: The Control and Manipulation of Nicotine and Cigarettes
http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/gvo31a00 - 1994 news article. Kessler report on how the tobacco industry controls and manipulates nicotine in its product.
- Nicotine Addiction And Cigarettes
http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=22937 - American Lung Association info sheets on smoking, nicotine, and related topics: does smoking help people relax? What quitting methods work?
- Smoking And Tobacco Factsheets
http://www.dhss.mo.gov/SmokingAndTobacco/ - From the Missouri Health Department, a large set of factsheets on cigarettes, tobacco advertising, health effects, and secondhand smoke.
- Nicotine and the Tobacco Industry
http://scienceweek.com/1998/sw981113.htm - Science Week article focuses on 3 decades of tobacco industry efforts to engineer cigarettes for addiction.
- Revolution Health : Nicotine Dependence
http://www.revolutionhealth.com/conditions/addiction/smoking-nicotine-dependence/ - Find nicotine dependence information, covering symptoms, causes, risks, treatments and types. Discuss nicotine dependence issues with others in forums, blogs, personal stories and recommendations.
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