BBC News: Grim toll of smoking More than 122,000 British smokers will die prematurely in the year 2000 from a smoking-related disease; article explains.
Smokers Get Ill Sooner, Study Says Statistics Canada analysis shows that cigarettes and tobacco products not only kill the customer, they also cause debilitating illnesses along the way, such as bronchitis, asthma and high blood pressure.
Tobacco BBS Health Information Page Annotated collection of links on health effects of firsthand and secondhand smoking, spit tobacco, quitting.
Active and Passive Tobacco Exposure: A Serious Pediatric Health Problem Report from the American Heart Association covers effects of smoking, secondhand smoke, and smokeless tobacco on young people. Effects include cardiovascular and respiratory disease, low birth weight, infant mortality, and problems in the oral cavity.
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.
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.
Smoking: The Health Effects Smokers in their 30s and 40s are five times more likely to have a heart attack than non-smokers. Half of all smoking deaths are in middle age. Article from the BBC news summarizes.
The Whole Truth About Smoking New research find that the tobacco industry does a good job in deceiving the public about the full health risks of smoking; a rundown of 6 myths about smoking and the facts.
Cigarette Smoking-Attributable Morbidity --- United States, 2000 Most reports focus on how many people are killed by tobacco products; this report estimates how much disease cigarettes cause: tobacco products give more than 8.6 million Americans serious diseases every year.
