Directory of Effects Resources

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The Effects category focuses on tobacco-related effects on the human body. Sites appropriate for this category include consumer information, professional information, organizations, services, and personal experiences.

The primary method of organizing this information is by the type of tobacco-related effect. The types of effects include, but are not limited to:

• Cancer,
• Effects on the respiratory system,
• Effects on the cardiovascular system,
• Effects on the brain and nervous system,
• Effects on the mouth and throat, and
• Effects on reproduction and pregnancy.

Some sites focus on all effects resulting from a specific type of exposure. These are organized under "By Source of Exposure" and include:

• Cigarette smoking,
• Cigar and pipe smoking,
• Smokeless tobacco, and
• Secondhand smoke.

Sites not listed in this category:

• Topics focused on addiction are listed in Health: Addictions: Substance Abuse: Tobacco.
• Topics focused on public policy issues are listed in Society: Issues: Health: Tobacco.

Subcategories

• Addiction
• Brain and Nervous System
• By Source of Exposure
• Cancer
• Cardiovascular System
• Mouth and Throat
• Reproduction and Pregnancy
• Respiratory System

Resources in This Category

• BBC News: Grim toll of smoking

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/536633.stm
  More than 122,000 British smokers will die prematurely in the year 2000 from a smoking-related disease; article explains.

• Cigarette Anyone?

  http://www.emphysema.net/my.html
  Firsthand accounts of what it is like to live with the diseases caused by cigarettes.

• Cigarette Smoking-Attributable Morbidity --- United States, 2000

  http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5235a4.htm
  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.

• Diagnose-Me: Conditions: Cigarette Smoke Damage

  http://www.diagnose-me.com/symptoms-of/cigarette-smoke-damage.html
  Lists diseases caused by tobacco propducts, and provides a brief description of each.

• Fire Injuries, Disasters, and Costs from Cigarettes and Cigarette Lights fires

  http://epm-leistikow.ucdavis.edu/SMOKINGFIRES.HTM
  Scientific paper estimates the injuries, deaths, and costs from smoking-attributable files.

• He Wanted You to Know

  http://www.sptimes.com/News/61599/Floridian/He_wanted_you_to_know.shtml
  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.

• Mortality from Smoking in Developed Countries 1950-2000

  http://www.ctsu.ox.ac.uk/~tobacco/
  Latest edition of massive tome; content in PDF format.

• Premature Skin Wrinkling And Cigarette Smoking

  http://www.docguide.com/news/content.nsf/news/8525697700573E1885256B8400646C83
  Recent research on how tobacco products cause face wrinkles in young people.

• Smoking Caused Disability

  http://jech.bmj.com/content/54/8/566.full
  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 Cessation Health Center

  http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/default.htm
  Discussion, graphics, and analysis of tobacco use, disease, and death.

• Smoking Deaths Not Overstated, Re-Analysis Shows

  http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/short/284/6/706
  Refuting claims by the tobacco industry that death estimates from smoking are inflated, the American Medical Association re-analyzes the data.

• Smoking Increases Anxiety

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/1010221.stm
  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.

• The Whole Truth About Smoking

  http://www.femail.co.uk/pages/standard/article.html?in_article_id=104616&in_page_id=179
  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

  http://www.tobacco.org/resources/health/
  Annotated collection of links on health effects of firsthand and secondhand smoking, spit tobacco, quitting.

• Tobacco Facts

  http://www.tobacco-facts.info/
  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.

• Worldwide Trends in Tobacco Consumption and Mortality

  http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/tobacco/who-tobacco.htm
  WHO report outlines effects of tobacco globally, identifies trends.

Related Categories

• Home > Health > Addictions > Substance Abuse > Tobacco > Quitting
• Home > Health > Pharmacy > Drugs and Medications > N > Nicotine
• Home > Society > Issues > Health > Tobacco

 

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