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'Impact Booster': Tobacco Firm Shows How Ammonia Spurs Delivery of Nicotine 1996 Pulitzer prize-winning reporting on how the tobacco industry uses ammonia to engineer cigarettes for addiction.
http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1996/national-reporting/works/impact.html
A Collection of Articles on Nicotine Addiction Articles about research studies funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA_Notes/NN0031.html
Addicted to Nicotine: A National Research Forum Includes presentation summaries of papers presented at the conference held in 2001 at the (US) National Institutes of Health. Topics include nicotine delivery systems, pharmacology, individual and environmental risk factors, the psychobiology of addition, and treatment of nicotine dependence.
http://www.nida.nih.gov/meetsum/nicotine/Nicotine.html
Ammonia Added to Cigarettes Can Significantly Boost Availability of Nicotine Independent research confirms that ammonia added to ciarettes can boost the availability of nicotine up to 100 times.
http://www.ndsn.org/AUGUST97/AMMONIA.html
Cancer Facts and Figures 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.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/stt/stt_0.asp
CDC's TIPS: Tobacco Information and Prevention Source Maintained by the CDC's Office on Smoking and Health. Covers tobacco-related issues, statistics, news, research, data, reports, quitting tips, educational materials, publications, . Also sections dedicated to youth.
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/
eMedicine - Nicotine Addiction Medical facts on the physiology of nicotine addiction, and the effect tobacco products have on the brain, lungs, and other vital organs, and a treatment options section.
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1642.htm
Infofax - Cigarettes and Other Nicotine Products NIH short summary of nicotine effects.
http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofax/tobacco.html
Low Tar Exposed Site explains why 'low tar', 'light' and 'mild' cigarettes are just as harmful as regular cigarettes.
http://www.lowtarexposed.org/
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - Tobacco & Cancer 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.
http://www.mdanderson.org/topics/smoking
Nicotine Addiction Concise factsheet.
http://www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/nicaddct.html
Nicotine Addiction And Cigarettes American Lung Association info sheets on smoking, nicotine, and related topics: does smoking help people relax? What quitting methods work?
http://www.lungusa.org/site/pp.asp?c=dvLUK9O0E&b=22937
Nicotine Addiction Can Start Within A Few Days And After Just A Few Cigarettes Recent research shows that cigarette products cause addiction much faster than was previously believed, in just a few doses.
http://www.cfah.org/hbns/newsrelease/nicotine9-12-00.cfm
Nicotine Addiction in Britain Complete online book by the Royal College of Physicians; covers physical. pharmacological, and psychological effects; addiction; the smoker's career; regulation of intake; treatment; regulatory approaches; recommendations.
http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/pubs/books/nicotine/
Nicotine Addiction in Britain 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'.
http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/pubs/books/nicotine/2-physical.htm
Nicotine and Addiction ASH-UK factsheet on nicotine, its properties, difficulty in quitting, measures of dependence, withdrawal systems, genetic influence, and tobacco industry recognition of the its importance.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact09.html
Nicotine and the Tobacco Industry Science Week article focuses on 3 decades of tobacco industry efforts to engineer cigarettes for addiction.
http://scienceweek.com/1998/sw981113.htm
Nicotine Junkies Information on kids and smoking, facts about smoking and addiction.
http://whyfiles.org/024nicotine/
Quit Victoria 'Tobacco smoking is the single most important cause of ill health and premature death in Australia.' Not just quitting information -- health questions answered; effects of cigarettes; quit evaluation studies; information in languages other than English; smokefree workplaces and dining.
http://www.quit.org.au/
thetruth.com American Legacy Foundation tobacco education campaign covers cigarettes, smoking, other tobacco products. 'The truth about how the cigarette industry operates'.
http://www.thetruth.com/
Tobacco BBS Cigarettes, tobacco, and smoking-related news and issues, addresses, tobacco history, information on quitting, and a quote of the day section.
http://www.tobacco.org/
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