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• - Documentation on how Tobacco Companies manipulate tobacco to keep smokers hooked - From the About.com Guide
  
• - Medical facts on the physiology of nicotine addiction, and the effect tobacco products have on the brain, lungs, and other vital organs, and a treatment options section.
  
• - Offers smoking cessation tips, research results, and tips for staying smoke free.
  
• - 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
  
• - Information about nictoine delivery, addiction, medical consequences, and differences based on culture, age, and gender.
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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
  
• - 1994 news article. Kessler report on how the tobacco industry controls and manipulates nicotine in its product.
  
• - 1996 Pulitzer prize-winning reporting on how the tobacco industry uses ammonia to engineer cigarettes for addiction.
  
• - Includes presentation summaries of papers presented at the conference held in 2001 at the (US) National Institutes of Health. Topics include nicotine delivery systems, pharmacology, individual and environmental risk factors, the psychobiology of addition,
  
• - A support group and education forum dedicated exclusively to the science and art of successful abrupt nicotine cessation.
  
• - List of stars and performers killed by tobacco.
  
• - Papers and factsheets on: tobacco and minorities, state tobacco settlement funds, tobacco and older persons.
  
• - Report covers the scientific evidence on active smoking, passive smoking, nicotine addiction, price and marketing of cigarettes and other tobacco products, cessation, key conclusions.
  
• - Science Week article focuses on 3 decades of tobacco industry efforts to engineer cigarettes for addiction.
  
• - 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
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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, to
  
• - 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.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Recent research shows that cigarette products cause addiction much faster than was previously believed, in just a few doses.
  
• - A quarterly scientific journal covering all aspects of tobacco use prevention and control.
  
• - NIH short summary of nicotine effects.
  
• - Can cigarettes be made less addictive? Scientific paper examines the question.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Site explains why "low tar", "light" and "mild" cigarettes are just as harmful as regular cigarettes.
  
• - From the Missouri Health Department, a large set of factsheets on cigarettes, tobacco advertising, health effects, and secondhand smoke.
  
• - Provides an opportunity to educate about the effects of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
  
• - Complete online book by the Royal College of Physicians; covers physical. pharmacological, and psychological effects; addiction; the smoker's career; regulation of intake; treatment; regulatory approaches; recommendations.
  
• - Short paper by Joseph Califano, former secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
  
• - Concise factsheet.
  
• - Independent research confirms that ammonia added to ciarettes can boost the availability of nicotine up to 100 times.
  
• - Information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse about nicotine, addiction, the extent and impact of tobacco use, how nicotine delivers its effect, consequences of continued use, treatments, and gender differences.
  
• - American Lung Association info sheets on smoking, nicotine, and related topics: does smoking help people relax? What quitting methods work?
  
• - ASH-UK factsheet on nicotine, its properties, difficulty in quitting, measures of dependence, withdrawal systems, genetic influence, and tobacco industry recognition of the its importance.
  
• - Now-famous segment on nicotine manipulation in cigarettes.
  
• - New research measures amount of free-base nicotine in "the modern cigarette, a highly engineered nicotine delivery device".
  
• - Articles about research studies funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
  
• - Provides information on industry manipulation and control of nicotine in cigarettes.
  
• - Information on kids and smoking, facts about smoking and addiction.
  
• - "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
  
• - A WHO cabinet project created to focus international attention, resources and action on global tobacco use and problems caused by that use.