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American Cancer Society - Cancer Statistics Facts and figures, available in pdf format.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/stt/stt_0.asp
American Cancer Society: Harmful Effects of Tobacco Information related to use of cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, and exposure to secondhand smoke.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/ped_10_1.asp?sitearea=PED
Cigarette Smoke Causes Breaks in DNA and Defects to Chromosomes Recent research finds a single cigarette causes breaks in DNA and defects to a cell's chromosomes, leading to irreversible changes in genetic information.
http://www.upmccancercenters.com/news/upci_news/2004/093004_cigarette_smoke.html
Dying of Cancer, She Used Her Last Days to Warn Kids 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. (May 19, 2003)
http://www.cbc.ca/news/obit/tarbox_barb/
Most Cancer Is Made, Not Born 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.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/08/10/ED9161.DTL
NCI: Tobacco and Cancer 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.
http://cancer.gov/cancerinfo/tobacco/
OncoLink: Smoking and Cancer Links compiled by OncoLink.
http://www.oncolink.com/resources/section.cfm?c=1&s=25
Paternal Smoking and Cancer among Children of Nonsmoking Mothers Scientific paper finds paternal smoking before conception increases risk of the children getting cancer, particularly acute leukemia and lymphoma.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=9017004&dopt=Abstract
Prostate Cancer and Smoking Slides from a college lecture discusses the association.
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec4721/index.htm
Scots Tobacco Death Toll Studied Scotland's title as Europe's lung cancer capital has come under the spotlight at a major anti-smoking conference.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/379366.stm
Smoking and Cancer ASH-UK factsheet covers the difference cancers caused by smoking and tobacco.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact04.html
Tobacco, Colorectal Cancer, and Adenomas the evidence. Another cancer now known to be caused by smoking.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=8944002&dopt=Abstract
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