Information related to use of cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, and exposure to secondhand smoke.
Information from the National Cancer Institute includes Q&As about tobacco products and their association with cancer. It also includes information about quitting, prevention, clinical trials, research, literature, and statistics.
Facts and figures, available in pdf format.
Recent research shows that most cancer is caused by environmental exposure to carcinogens, not from preprogrammed genes; smoking is the single-most important avoidable cause of cancer and is directly responsible for 30 percent of all cases.
Slides from a college lecture discusses the association.
ASH-UK factsheet covers the difference cancers caused by smoking and tobacco.
Another cancer now known to be caused by smoking.
Scientific paper finds paternal smoking before conception increases risk of the children getting cancer, particularly acute leukemia and lymphoma.
Scotland's title as Europe's lung cancer capital has come under the spotlight at a major anti-smoking conference.
At age 42, Barb Tarbox used her last few months of life to go on a speaking tour of Canada schools, to tell them what it's like to be dying of cancer caused by cigarettes.
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