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ACSH: Tobacco The American Council on Science and Health has been a leader in restoring scienctific fact and context to health issues, both in exposing overstated and understated risks. This page covers tobacco, including what the warning label doesn't tell you. Smoking's Deadly Effects Statistics don't tell the whole story of tobacco disease and death. That's why PBS is running a program on Pam Laffin, a woman who tells her own story of emphysema caused by tobacco products. The story of how she got started smoking, how she discovered she had the disease, and how she lives her live now with one lung, is more compelling sometimes than any amount of statistics. Zep's Why Quit Smoking site Personal stories of people who died from cigarette smoking. Spinal cord injury: Smoking and SCI For SCI survivors who smoke there's even more bad news and more ill health effects than general population. The Irreversible Health Effects of Cigarettes Pamphlet from ACSH. Quitting greatly reduces risks, but some effects of smoking are permanent. All about tobacco facts, smoking cancer, epidemiology and quitting 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. South Carolina Department of Alcohol and Other Drug Abuse Services: Tobacco Use "Tobacco use is the nation's deadliest addiction. Smoking cigarettes is the leading cause of preventable death in the U.S. Over 400,000 Americans die every year from tobacco use. More people die from tobacco than from AIDS, car accidents, alcohol, suicides, homicides, fires, and illegal drugs combined." Summary of the effects of tobacco use. WHO: The Tobacco Epidemic The World Health Organization (WHO) summarizes the situation worldwide: "each year, tobacco causes about 3.5 million deaths throughout the world; this will increase to 10 million annual deaths during the 2020s, with seven million of these deaths occurring in developing countries. Half of these unnecessary deaths are occurring in middle age (35-69), robbing those killed of around 22 years of life." Cigarette Anyone? Firsthand accounts of what it is like to live with the diseases caused by cigarettes. Does Tobacco Use Cause Other (non-malignant) Disease? Tobacco use actually claims more lives via tobacco-caused diseases other than cancer. |
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