- "Crack" Nicotine in Cigarettes Varies Widely
New research measures amount of free-base nicotine in "the modern cigarette, a highly engineered nicotine delivery device".
 http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993990
- 'Impact Booster': Tobacco Firm Shows How Ammonia Spurs Delivery of Nicotine
1996 Pulitzer prize-winning reporting on how the tobacco industry uses ammonia to engineer cigarettes for addiction.
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1996/national-reporting/works/impact.html
- ABC DayOne: Smoke Screen
Now-famous segment on nicotine manipulation in cigarettes.
http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/abctranscript.html
- Ammonia Added to Cigarettes Can Significantly Boost Availability of Nicotine
Independent research confirms that ammonia added to ciarettes can boost the availability of nicotine up to 100 times.
http://www.ndsn.org/AUGUST97/AMMONIA.html
- CDC's TIPS: Tobacco Information and Prevention Source
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.
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/
- Cancer Facts and Figures
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.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/stt/stt_0.asp
- Harris Poll: Tobacco Addiction
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.
http://www.harriszone.com/press/PowerOfTobacco.html
- Infofax - Cigarettes and Other Nicotine Products
NIH short summary of nicotine effects.
http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofax/tobacco.html
- Low Tar Exposed
Site explains why "low tar", "light" and "mild" cigarettes are just as harmful as regular cigarettes.
http://www.lowtarexposed.org/
- M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - Tobacco & Cancer
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.
http://www.mdanderson.org/topics/smoking
- Nicotine Addiction
Concise factsheet.
http://www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/nicaddct.html
- Nicotine Addiction And Cigarettes
American Lung Association info sheets on smoking, nicotine, and related topics: does smoking help people relax? What quitting methods work?
http://www.lungusa.org/tobacco/tobacco_general_index.html
- Nicotine Addiction Can Start Within A Few Days And After Just A Few Cigarettes
Recent research shows that cigarette products cause addiction much faster than was previously believed, in just a few doses.
http://www.cfah.org/hbns/newsrelease/nicotine9-12-00.cfm
- Nicotine Addiction in Britain
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".
http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/pubs/books/nicotine/2-physical.htm
- Nicotine Junkies
Information on kids and smoking, facts about smoking and addiction.
http://whyfiles.org/024nicotine/
- Nicotine and Addiction
ASH-UK factsheet on nicotine, its properties, and how cigarettes and tobacco products deliver it to the body.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact09.html
- Nicotine and the Tobacco Industry
Science Week article focuses on 3 decades of tobacco industry efforts to engineer cigarettes for addiction.
http://scienceweek.com/swfr047.htm
- OncoLink: The Control and Manipulation of Nicotine and Cigarettes
1994 news article. Kessler report on how the tobacco industry controls and manipulates nicotine in its product.
http://free.freespeech.org/transgenicos/transgenicos/perolas/y-1/kessler.htm
- Quit Victoria
"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.
http://www.quit.org.au/
- Reducing the Addictiveness of Cigarettes
Can cigarettes be made less addictive? Scientific paper examines the question.
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/7/3/281?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&titleabstract=Reducing+the+addictiveness+of+cigarettes&searchid=QID_NOT_SET&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=&fdate=12/1/1997&tdate=2/28/1999
- Report of the UK Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health
Report covers the scientific evidence on active smoking, passive smoking, nicotine addiction, price and marketing of cigarettes and other tobacco products, cessation, key conclusions.
http://www.doh.gov.uk/public/scoth.htm
- Smoking And Tobacco Factsheets
From the Missouri Health Department, a large set of factsheets on cigarettes, tobacco advertising, health effects, and secondhand smoke.
http://www.health.state.mo.us/SmokingAndTobacco/FSST.html
- Smoking Is Ugly
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.
http://www.smokingisugly.com
- Spiking Tobacco: How to Keep Smokers Hooked - SMOKING CESSATION - 7/19/99
Documentation on how Tobacco Companies manipulate tobacco to keep smokers hooked - From the About.com Guide
http://quitsmoking.about.com/health/quitsmoking/library/weekly/aa071999.htm?iam=dp&terms=tobacco+disease
- Statement on Nicotine-Containing Cigarettes by David A. Kessler, M.D.
Provides information on industry manipulation and control of nicotine in cigarettes.
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/SPEECH/SPE00052.htm
- TCSG - Tobacco and The Elderly
Papers and factsheets on: tobacco and minorities, state tobacco settlement funds, tobacco and older persons.
http://www.tcsg.org/tobacco.htm
- The Tobacco Reference Guide
Complete online book provides quotes, summaries, and factsheets on: scope of the problem and overall death and disability; demographics; mortality and longevity data; history; secondhand smoke; asthma and allergy; lung cancer; other cancers; heart disease; COPD; other healthproblems; impotence; pregnancy; children and teen smoking; spit tobacco; pipes and cigars; tobacco ingredients and additives; nicotine and addiction; low tar and nicotine cigarettes; quitting; women and smoking; and advertising.
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/
- Tobacco Advertising and Document Collections
Growing set of resources presenting and organizing tobacco industry documents; shows what the industry says in in private about youth, advertising, promotions; features a poster on the history of youth cigarette brands.
http://roswell.tobaccodocuments.org/
- Tobacco BBS
Cigarettes, tobacco, and smoking-related news and issues, addresses, tobacco history, information on quitting, and a quote of the day section.
http://www.tobacco.org/
- Tobacco Control Online
A quarterly scientific journal covering all aspects of tobacco use prevention and control.
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/
- Tobacco Industry Hall of Shame
List of stars and performers killed by tobacco.
http://roswell.tobaccodocuments.org/hall_of_shame.htm
- Tobacco Web
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.
http://www.nswcc.org.au/editorial.asp?pageid=369
- Tobacco in Australia: Facts and Issues
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.
http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/welcome.htm
- Tobacco: The Moral Issues
Short paper by Joseph Califano, former secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
http://www.americamagazine.org/articles/califtobac.htm
- TobaccoFree
Offers smoking cessation tips, research results, and tips for staying smoke free.
http://www.tobaccofree.org/
- WHO Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI)
A WHO cabinet project created to focus international attention, resources and action on global tobacco use and problems caused by that use.
http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/
- WHO: The Tobacco Atlas
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.
http://www.who.int/tobacco/statistics/tobacco_atlas/en/
- WhyQuit - Cold Turkey Quitting
A support group and education forum dedicated exclusively to the science and art of successful abrupt nicotine cessation.
http://whyquit.com/
- World No Tobacco Day
Provides an opportunity to educate about the effects of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
http://www.wntd.com/
- thetruth.com
American Legacy Foundation tobacco education campaign covers cigarettes, smoking, other tobacco products. "The truth about how the cigarette industry operates".
http://www.thetruth.com/
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