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• Cancer Facts and Figures   [rate it] [review it]
  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.

• drkoop.com: Tackling Tobacco   [rate it] [review it]
  Overview and news on health and smoking; cigarettes and cigars; featured articles; risk profiler; quitting tips; diagnosis and prevention of diseases caused by tobacco.

• Dying of Cancer, She Used Her Last Days to Warn Kids   [rate it] [review it]
  At age 42, Barb Tarbox used her last few months of life to go on a speaking tour of Canada schools, to tell them what it's like to be dying of cancer caused by cigarettes.

• He Wanted You to Know   [rate it] [review it]
  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.

• M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - Smoking, Tobacco & Cancer   [rate it] [review it]
  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.

• Nicotine Addiction And Cigarettes   [rate it] [review it]
  American Lung Association info sheets on smoking, nicotine, and related topics: does smoking help people relax? What quitting methods work?

• Nicotine Addiction in Britain   [rate it] [review it]
  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".

• Nicotine and Addiction   [rate it] [review it]
  ASH-UK factsheet on nicotine, its properties, and how cigarettes and tobacco products deliver it to the body.

• Nicotine Junkies   [rate it] [review it]
  Information on kids and smoking, facts about smoking and addiction.

• Nicotine, Tobacco, and Smoking - What's the Big Deal?   [rate it] [review it]
  Basic information on smoking, quitting, cigarettes, and other tobacco products.

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