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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
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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
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ABC DayOne: Smoke Screen
Now-famous segment on nicotine manipulation in cigarettes.
http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/abctranscript.html
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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
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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Nicotine Addiction
Concise factsheet.
http://www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/nicaddct.html
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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
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Nicotine Junkies
Information on kids and smoking, facts about smoking and addiction.
http://whyfiles.org/024nicotine/
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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/
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Research Report: Nicotine Addiction
Information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse about nicotine, addiction, the extent and impact of tobacco use, how nicotine delivers its effect, consequences of continued use, treatments, and gender differences.
http://www.drugabuse.gov/researchreports/nicotine/nicotine.html
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Smoking Is Ugly
Created and sustained by Christy Turlington, an online resource guide, providing information and links to numerous lung cancer and smoking-cessation related websites. SmokingIsUgly.com is part of Turlington's campaign to raise awareness about the effects of smoking, smoking related diseases and lung cancer.
http://www.smokingisugly.com
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Statement on Nicotine-Containing Cigarettes by David A. Kessler, M.D.
Provides information on industry manipulation and control of nicotine in cigarettes.
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/SPEECH/SPE00052.htm
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TCSG - Tobacco and The Elderly
Papers and factsheets on: tobacco and minorities, state tobacco settlement funds, tobacco and older persons.
http://www.tcsg.org/tobacco.htm
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The Tobacco Reference Guide
Online book provides quotes, summaries, and factsheets about hazards of smoking.
http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/
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Tobacco Advertising and Document Collections
Growing set of resources presenting and organizing tobacco industry documents; shows what the industry says in private about youth, advertising, promotions; features a poster on the history of youth cigarette brands.
http://roswell.tobaccodocuments.org/
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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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Tobacco in Australia: Facts and Issues
A complete, online, book, with all citations to the literature. Covers cigarettes, other tobacco products; statistics and trends; health effects; smoking in the workplace and public places; public policy; addiction; quitting; anti-smoking campaigns; and the tobacco industry.
http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/welcome.htm
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Tobacco Industry Hall of Shame
List of stars and performers killed by tobacco.
http://roswell.tobaccodocuments.org/hall_of_shame.htm
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Tobacco Web
From Australia: cigarettes, tobacco history; current trends; smoking and health, the tobacco industry -- recent revelations; secondhand smoke; young people and smoking; smoking in the workplace; tqitting smoking.
http://www.nswcc.org.au/editorial.asp?pageid=369
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TobaccoFree
Offers smoking cessation tips, research results, and tips for staying smoke free.
http://www.tobaccofree.org/
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WHO Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI)
A WHO cabinet project created to focus international attention, resources and action on global tobacco use and problems caused by that use.
http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/
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WHO: The Tobacco Atlas
History of tobacco, types of use, male and female smoking, youth, cigarette consumption, health effects, secondhand smoke, deaths, costs; the trade, the industry, smuggling, tobacco promotion and marketing, Internet sales, politics; activism, research, tobacco control, policy initiatives; quitting, litigation, pricing, and futures.
http://www.who.int/tobacco/statistics/tobacco_atlas/en/
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WhyQuit - Cold Turkey Quitting
A support group and education forum dedicated exclusively to the science and art of successful abrupt nicotine cessation.
http://whyquit.com/
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