A memorial devoted to victims of tobacco products.
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.
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.
Discussion, graphics, and analysis of tobacco use, disease, and death.
Smoking not only shortens life, it increases number of years of disability. This research analysis estimates how much increased disability is caused by 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.
WHO report outlines effects of tobacco globally, identifies trends.
From cataracts to diabetes, from osteoporosis to skin disorders, the other health effects of tobacco products.
Factsheet uses UK numbers to demonstrate health effects of smoking.
Concise factsheet from ASH-UK boils it all down: what cigarettes do to the customer.
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