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American Cancer Society - Cancer Statistics Description: Facts and figures, available in pdf format. (cancer.org) |
| American Cancer Society: Harmful Effects of Tobacco Description: Information related to use of cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, and exposure to secondhand smoke. (cancer.org) |
| Cancer.gov - Tobacco and Cancer Description: Information from the National Cancer Institute includes Q&As about tobacco products and their association with cancer. It also includes information about quitting, prevention, clinical trials, research, literature, and statistics. (cancer.gov) |
| Cigarette Smoke Causes Breaks in DNA and Defects to Chromosomes Description: Recent research fidns a single cigarette causes breaks in DNA and defects to a cell's chromosomes, leading to irreversible changes in genetic information. (upmccancercenters.com) |
| Dying of Cancer, She Used Her Last Days to Warn Kids Description: 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. (cbc.ca) |
| Most Cancer Is Made, Not Born Description: Recent research shows that most cancer is caused by environmental exposure to carcinogens, not from preprogrammed genes; smoking is the single-most important avoidable cause of cancer and is directly responsible for 30 percent of all cases. (sfgate.com) |
| OncoLink: Smoking and Cancer Description: Links compiled by OncoLink. (oncolink.com) |
| Paternal Smoking and Cancer among Children of Nonsmoking Mothers Description: Scientific paper finds paternal smoking before conception increases risk of the children getting cancer, particularly acute leukemia and lymphoma. (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| Prostate Cancer and Smoking Description: Slides from a college lecture discusses the association. (pitt.edu) |
| Scots Tobacco Death Toll Studied Description: Scotland's title as Europe's lung cancer capital has come under the spotlight at a major anti-smoking conference. (news.bbc.co.uk) |
| Smoking and Cancer Description: ASH-UK factsheet covers the difference cancers caused by smoking and tobacco. (ash.org.uk) |
| Smoking Increases Skin Cancer Risk Description: Tobacco products triple the risk of developing a common form of skin cancer, according to a new study. (telegraph.co.uk:80) |
| Tobacco, Colorectal Cancer, and Adenomas the evidence. Description: Another cancer now known to be caused by smoking. (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
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