- OncoLink: Smoking and Cancer
Extensive set of links compiled by OncoLink. Plus original content. Covers tobacco sales, effects, secondhand smoke, news, quitting tips. (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - Smokers can and do die young!
Shows effects of smoking through photographs and stories of smokers, including those who died or are dying in their 30's. Images of diseased lungs; links to lung cancer and quit smoking support groups. (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - Smoking
Short description by a doctor of the effects of smoking on health and quality of life. (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - Smoking and Cancer
ASH-UK factsheet covers the difference cancers caused by smoking and tobacco. (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - Smoking and injuries
Research shows that cigarette smoking is a risk factor for exercise-related injuries. (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - Smoking and Quality of Life
Research summarizes health-related quality of life of never smokers, ex-smokers, and light, moderate, and heavy smokers. (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - Smoking Caused Disability
Smoking not only shortens life, it increases number of years of disability. This research analysis estimates how much increased disability is caused by smoking. (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - Smoking Increases Anxiety
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. (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It - 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. (Rating: 0.00 Votes: 0) Rate It |