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American Heart Association: Cigarette Smoking And Cardiovascular Diseases 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.
http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4545
Cigarettes Cause Heart Disease in Young People 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.
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/EMIHC000/22017/24546/314373.html?d=dmtICNNews
Ex-Smokers May Have Irreversible Damage To Arteries New research from one of the most comprehensive studies indicates that while most risks subside after quitting, some damage is not reversible.
http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/50c52.htm
Preventing Heart Disease - Smoking Short section on smoking and the hart.
http://www.fauxpress.com/kimball/med/heart/h3/smoking.htm
Six-month Public Smoking Ban Slashes Heart Attack Rate in Community 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. (April 3, 2003)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-04/uoc--sps032603.php
Smoking and Stroke: A Caustive Role All tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars, and pipes, cause stroke.
http://www.differentstrokes.co.uk/smoking.htm
Smoking, the Heart, and Circulation ASH-UK Factsheet on smoking and chronic heart disease, arterial disease, aneurysms, vascular disease, and stroke.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact06.html
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