网站简介:Former major-league baseball player Bill Tuttle died in 1998 after a long battle with oral cancer. His life and death show what spit tobacco does to its customers, and how it's promoted by its manufacturers.
网站简介:Letter to scientific journal on biomarkers, exposure measurement, confounds, and the evidence connecting secondhand smoke to stroke.
网站简介:Article summarizes the epidemiology.
网站简介:A quarterly scientific journal covering all aspects of tobacco use prevention and control.
网站简介:Article in scientific journal. Tested several brands of snuff. Measured results in human volunteers. "Large amounts of nicotine were delivered rapidly to the bloodstream".
网站简介:Collection of recent quotes reveals some dark humor. E.g. "It's nice that while Philip Morris is killing about 200 000 people every year that they're also doing something for the homeless."
网站简介:18 powerpoint presentations from leading tobacco experts, including tobacco company bar promotions, marketing tobacco to women, economics of tobacco, types and uses of tobacco litigation, US tobacco marketing tobacco outside the US, and teenagers, smoking, and transnational tobacco corporations.
网站简介:Letter to the British medical Journal reviews some tobacco, medical, and public policy history: "good evidence showed that smoking causes lung cancer; the media's response to this information was initially resistant; specious arguments were used to detract from the real issue, which confused the general public and lessened its concern; after 40 years there has been little change in smoking rates."
网站简介:Eight pairs of small Oregon communities were randomly assigned to receive a school based prevention program alone, or that plus a community program. Results, analysis, and discussion.
网站简介:Electronic version of the BMJ. Publish accessible information that will help doctors improve their practice and will influence the international debate on health. Access is free to all.
网站简介:Smoking not only shortens life, it increases number of years of disability. This research analysis estimates how much increased disability is caused by smoking.
网站简介:"Despite public denials, internal tobacco company documents indicate that adolescents have long been the target of cigarette advertising and promotional activities...(From this analysis) we projected how many future deaths in the United States can be attributed to each brand."
网站简介:A history on how the tobacco industry fights tobacco research it doesn't like by attacking the research funding.
网站简介:Public land grant state University founded in 1791 by Ira Allen. Its abbreviation, UVM, comes from Universitas Virdis Montis, Latin for "University of the Green Mountains".
网站简介:Press release describing the results of the study, which show a glass of beer or stout has the same antioxidant properties as a glass of red wine.
网站简介:Research finds that even small exposures to secondhand smoke can damage health and even kill.
网站简介:One of the major online medical/health news journals. Updated hourly, with between 70 and 100 articles posted per day from the world's leading universities and research institutions. Medical News Today also offers free access to its news archive of over 250,000 articles.
网站简介:NCI 1999 monograph covers impact, exposure, effects on infants and children, reproductive effects, lung disease, cancer, and heart disease.
网站简介:Summary information from the National Cancer Institute describes antioxidents, laboratory findings, human studies, and research.
网站简介:General information on many aspects of the disease from the U.S. National Cancer Institute.
网站简介:Basic information from the National Cancer Institute about the relationship to cancer rates, health risks for nonsmokers, harmful chemicals found in cigarettes, and amount of exposure.
网站简介:Monograph from the National Cancer Institute. Epidemiology, clinical and pathological effects, carcinogenesis, nicotine effects and addiction, prevention, cessation, policy, and recommendations. All downloadable PDF files.
网站简介:Review of the scientific literature finds that passive smoking is consistently associated with an increased risk of heart disease across a wide variety of studies.
网站简介:2003 FTC report finds that the spit tobacco industry has spent more promoting its product every year since 1987.
网站简介:In a Dutch population, drinkers of seven or more cups of coffee a day were half as likely to develop type 2 diabetes. Journal reference: Lancet (vol 360, p 1477).