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Nicotine Addiction
- Concise factsheet.
Low Tar Exposed
- Site explains why 'low tar', 'light' and 'mild' cigarettes are just as harmful as regular cigarettes.
Nicotine Addiction in Britain
- Complete online book by the Royal College of Physicians; covers physical. pharmacological, and psychological effects; addiction; the smoker's career; regulation of intake; treatment; regulatory approaches; recommendations.
Nicotine and the Tobacco Industry
- Science Week article focuses on 3 decades of tobacco industry efforts to engineer cigarettes for addiction.
Infofax - Cigarettes and Other Nicotine Products
- NIH short summary of nicotine effects.
Nicotine and Addiction
- ASH-UK factsheet on nicotine, its properties, difficulty in quitting, measures of dependence, withdrawal systems, genetic influence, and tobacco industry recognition of the its importance.
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.
Nicotine Addiction And Cigarettes
- American Lung Association info sheets on smoking, nicotine, and related topics: does smoking help people relax? What quitting methods work?
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.
Nicotine Junkies
- Information on kids and smoking, facts about smoking and addiction.
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.
'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.
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.
Nicotine Addiction in Britain
- Extensive report produced by the Royal College of Physicians. 'Nicotine addiction is one of the major reasons why people continue to smoke cigarettes, and cigarettes are in reality extremely effective and closely controlled nicotine delivery devices'.
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.
thetruth.com
- American Legacy Foundation tobacco education campaign covers cigarettes, smoking, other tobacco products. 'The truth about how the cigarette industry operates'.
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - Tobacco & Cancer
- University of Texas medical center factsheets on effects of smoking and tobacco, and tips and support for quitting. One-third of M. D. Anderson patients have tobacco-related cancers.
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.
A Collection of Articles on Nicotine Addiction
- Articles about research studies funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
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.
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