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Tobacco Effects - Cardiovascular SystemHealth Information
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American Heart Association: Cigarette Smoking And Cardiovascular Diseases Description: Cigarettes are the most important preventable cause of premature death in the United State. Most of those deaths are from heart disease, not cancer. The facts from the AHA. (americanheart.org) |
| Cigarettes Cause Heart Disease in Young People Description: Resent research finds that teen-agers and young adults who smoke have three times the level of plaque in a major artery as those who don't smoke. (intelihealth.com) |
| Ex-Smokers May Have Irreversible Damage To Arteries Description: New research from one of the most comprehensive studies indicates that while most risks subside after quitting, some damage is not reversible. (pslgroup.com) |
| How to prevent heart disease Description: Concise factsheet explaining how to prevent heart disease, available for downloading in Adobe acrobat format. (hcd2.bupa.co.uk) |
| Preventing Heart Disease - Smoking Description: Short section on smoking and the hart. (fauxpress.com) |
| Six-month Public Smoking Ban Slashes Heart Attack Rate in Community Description: Report on study in which the number of heart attack victims admitted to a regional hospital was found to have dropped by nearly 60 percent during the first six months that a smoke-free ordinance was in effect in the community. (eurekalert.org) |
| Smoking and Cardiovascular Disease Description: Concise summary of effects of smoking on the heart, blood vessels, and brain. (cancersa.org.au) |
| Smoking and Stroke: A Caustive Role Description: All tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars, and pipes, cause stroke. (differentstrokes.co.uk) |
| Smoking, the Heart, and Circulation Description: ASH-UK Factsheet on smoking and chronic heart disease, arterial disease, aneurysms, vascular disease, and stroke. (ash.org.uk) |
| Stroke Risk Increases With Every Cigarette Smoked Description: Recent research finds that cigarettes cause all three kinds of stroke, and the more cigarettes, the more strokes. (brighamandwomens.org) |
| The Connection Between Smoking and Heart Disease Description: What cigarettes and other tobacco products do to the heart and arteries; how they cause hypertension, stroke, and heart disease. (heartinfo.com) |
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