Tobacco Victims Home | Registration | Memorial | Celebrities | Survivors | Victims' Stories | Contact | About A selection of country statistics Canada 123.795 tobacco victims since 1st Jan. 2000 France 158.341 victimes du tabagisme depuis le 1er Janvier Italy 240.810 tobacco victims since 1st Jan. 2000 Switzerland 21.112 tobacco victims since 1st Jan. 2000 United Kingdom 316.682 tobacco victims ...

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This web page written by thoracic surgeon Fred Grannis MD represents an attempt to provide smokers, lung cancer patientsand their families with information on cigarette smoking, cessation, lung cancer risk, diagnosis and treatment.

Cigarette smoking is the most important preventable cause of premature death in the United States. It accounts for about 430, 700 of the more than 2 million annual deaths.

Annual Smoking-Attributable Mortality, Years of Potential Life Lost, and Economic Costs --- United States, 1995--1999 Cigarette smoking is the leading cause of preventable death in the United States and produces substantial health-related economic costs to society (1, 2). This report presents the annual estimates of the disease impact of smoking in the United States during 1995--1999. CDC ...

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Claycomo Plaza * 411 NE US HWY 69 * Claycomo, Mo. 64119 * FAX 816-413-0176 CIGARETTE ANYONE Why you shouldn't smoke and what it is like to have Emphysema from those with the disease. Contributed by members of EFFORTS (Emphysema Foundation For Our Right To Survive) Click on above to visit our website Most of us started smoking back in the 40's and 50's. The money spent, even back then, by the ...

Research Findings Volume 16, Number 1 (March, 2001) Smoking May Lead to Anxiety Disorders in Adolescents and Young Adults Using a wealth of data obtained through a 25-year longitudinal study, NIDA-funded researcher Dr. Judith Brook of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, Dr. Patricia Cohen of Columbia University in New York, and their colleagues have documented adverse effects of ...

Cigarette smoking and passive exposure to tobacco smoke are important causes of mortality in the United States. Active and passive exposure to tobacco smoke are projected to contribute to more than 400 000 deaths annually. Coronary artery disease, cancer (particularly lung cancer), and chronic obstructive lung disease are the major sequelae of smoking in adults. Because nearly all smokers begin ...

The American Academy of Periodontology warns that smoking may be one of the most significant risk factors in the development of periodontal disease (periodontitis and gingivitis).

UICC GLOBALink Presents... The Tobacco Reference Guide by David Moyer, MD. Chapter 3 Mortality And Longevity Data tobacco reference guide (artefact pour globalink (artefact pour saut de ligne) If current worldwide smoking patterns persist, about half a billion of the world's population alive today will be eventually killed by tobacco, including one quarter billion still in middle age (35-69) who ...

For SCI survivors who smoke there's even more bad news and more ill health effects than general population.

UICC GLOBALink Presents... The Tobacco Reference Guide by David Moyer, MD. Table of contents of the Chapter 11 Other health problems Cataracts and Eye Problems Dental Problems Depression and Psychiatric Problems Diabetes Fractures General HIV Influenza, Snoring, and Infections Miscellaneous Health Problems Osteoporosis Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, hearing loss Skin and Throat Disorders Thyroid ...

SMOKING IN THE WORKPLACE COSTS EMPLOYERS MONEY INTRODUCTION ELIMINATE SMOKING IN THE WORKPLACE HOW SMOKING COSTS THE EMPLOYER HOW TO BEGIN SUMMARY INTRODUCTION Businesses today desperately seek ways to contain the costs they must pay for health insurance for their employees by limiting coverage, subscribing to HMO's, and increasing deductibles. CEO's cast anxious glances over their shoulders as ...

The Fire-Safe Cigarette: the Search for a Standard For more information, see Progress Towards a Fire-Safe Cigarette published in JOURNAL OF PUBLIC HEALTH POLICY, Volume 16, 1995, Number 4. ABSTRACT About 1, 000 deaths, 3, 000 serious injuries, and several billion dollars in costs of property loss, health care and pain and suffering, result each year in the U.S. from fires started by dropped ...

UICC GLOBALink Presents... The Tobacco Reference Guide by David Moyer, MD. Chapter 11 Other health problems tobacco reference guideg (artefact pour Other health problems: Dental Problems globalink (artefact pour saut de ligne) Smokers are up to four times more likely than nonsmokers to develop gum disease. 46% of smokers ages 19 to 30 compared to 12% of nonsmokers had gum disease. Between ages ...

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Release Date: 00:01 Tuesday 12 September 2000 UK Time Contact: Dr. Joseph DiFranza (508) 856-5658 joe.difranza@banyan.ummed.edu Nicotine Addiction Can Start Within A Few Days And After Just A Few Cigarettes The first symptoms of nicotine addiction can start within a few days of starting to smoke and after just a few cigarettes, shows a study in Tobacco Control. The research explodes the commonly ...

Nicotine Addiction | Addiction Components | Withdrawal Symptoms | Drug Addiction Includes the Following: Physiological dependence: Tolerance Dependence Withdrawal symptoms Psychological dependence: Smokers continue to smoke for a number of psychological reasons: Stimulation Tension reduction Handling Habit Pleasurable relaxation Craving Sociocultural Factors: Social activity Numerous daily ...

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Tobacco and Periodontal Diseases Smoking is a major risk factor for periodontal diseases Both current and former smokers have an increased prevalence and severity of periodontal diseases There is a significant positive association between the amount smoked and the severity of periodontitis There is a linear and direct correlation between smoking and attachment loss with effects even at a low ...

Oral Effects of Tobacco Abuse The Maxillofacial Center for Diagnostics & Research Other Links Dr. Bouquot's Work Oral Precancer Oral Cancer Home Page This Topic Introduction Tobacco Use & History Effects on Oral Mucosa Gingival & Bone Damage Damage to Teeth Local Physiology & Microbiology Esthetics Considerations References Figures A papillary squamous cell carcinoma (oral cancer) of the lower ...

Tobacco Induced & Associated Oral Conditions | General | Effects on Teeth | Other | Possibly associated | Clinical Practice | General Oral Cancer Leukoplakia Other oral mucosal conditions Chronic hyperplastic candidiasis Smoker's palate (nicotine stomatitis) Smoker's melanosis Snuff dipper's lesion Cleft Lip / Cleft Palate Effects on teeth Staining of teeth and restorative materials Abrasion ...

Fact Sheet The NSW Quit Campaign FACT SHEET 7 COMMUNITY COSTS OF SMOKING The costs of tobacco smoking can be looked at in a number of ways. The most obvious cost in dollar terms is for health care and lost productivity associated with tobacco-related illness. Another cost - which is difficult to measure in dollar terms - is the pain and suffering of individual smokers and the fact that their ...

Premature facial wrinkling in young people is associated with smoking. Therefore, it is suggested th ...

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Smoking does not protect against dementia or Alzheimer's disease, shows a study in this week's BMJ, contradicting the implications of some previous research.

Summary of American Psychologist article by Andy Parrott, PhD which reviews psychological studies about the relationship between smoking and nicotine dependency and stress for both novice and regular smokers. Links to aritcle full text.

Sign the Resolution for a Federal Commission on Drug Policy Contents | Feedback | Search | DRCNet Home Page | Join DRCNet DRCNet Library | Schaffer Library | Tobacco Worldwide trends in tobacco consumption and mortality World Health Organisation TOBACCO: THE TWENTIETH CENTURY'S EPIDEMIC Every ten seconds, somewhere in the world, tobacco kills another victim. If current smoking trends continue, ...

Tobacco Control Plan Costs of Tobacco Consumption in CSAHS To estimate the medical cost of tobacco use in Central Sydney Area Health Service, the amount of mortality and hospital utilisation by residents of Central Sydney associated with tobacco use was calculated. A list of tobacco-related diseases (developed in earlier attempts to estimate the cost of tobacco use in other areas) (Holman and ...

4101.2: Tuesday, November 14, 2000 - Board 4 Health care costs of smoking Bruce N. Leistikow, MD, MS and Dan C. Martin, BS. Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, Univ. California, 1 Shields Av, Davis, CA 95616 Objective. To assess lifetime smoking-attributable (SA) healthcare costs, including largely nonfatal disease (debility) costs. Design. Literature review to locate debilities a) very likely ...

Testimony of JEFFREY E. HARRIS MD PHD Before the Committee on Ways and Means U.S. House of Representatives In Public Hearings on the Financing Provisions Of the Administration's Health Security Act 1100 Longworth House Office Building, Washington, D.C. Thursday, November 18, 1993 INTRODUCTION I am a practicing primary-care internist at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston and an ...

JC Penney North Dartmouth Mall They have money to burn Smokers cough up big bucks to feed habit By Vivian Marino, Associated Press writer Marcy Balk figures she could have bought a new car or taken her husband and two children on a luxury vacation had she saved and invested all the money spent over two decades on cigarettes. I never really sat down and did the numbers (but) ... I smoked one and ...

Smokers not only take more time off work, but they are also less productive when they are working, shows research in Tobacco Control. In 1990 the US Office of Technology Assessment estimated that smokers cost employers $47 billion dollars in premature death and disability.

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Young healthy people who smoke had substantially more lost work days than their non-smoking colleagues, finds research in Tobacco Control. Men smokers had more lost work days than women smokers, the study showed.

According to a study published in the newly released Journal of Periodontology, cigar and pipe smoking may have nearly the same adverse effects on periodontal health and tooth loss as cigarette smoking. Researchers analyzed 705 individuals ranging in age from 21 to 92 years old, and found that 17.6 percent of current or former cigar or pipe smokers had moderate to severe periodontitis nearly ...