Smoking and Second-Hand Smoking
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American Cancer Society
Learn About Lung Cancer--risk factors, prevention & treatment. It offers answers to questions about the disease and treatment options for small cell and non cell lung cancer. Other Information Sources enables you to browse other websites and books on cancer.
American Lung Association About Tobacco
Presents fact sheets on smoking, secondhand smoke, tobacco control & teens, smoking among older adults, cigar smoking, and smoking policies in the workplace.Quit smoking issues declare smoking the most important source of preventable and premature morbidity.State legislative initiatives include smokefree air laws, tobacco exise taxes, funding for tobacco prevention, and barriers to youth access.State Legislated Actions on Tobacco Issues(SLATI) is the only up-to-date guide on tobacco control laws in the U.S. The website itself is an electronic version of SLATI currently in its 16th edition (January 2005).
ANR: Americans for Nonsmokers Rights
This non-profit organization gives numerous facts on the dangers of secondhand smoke as well as supplying smokefree ordinance lists. These lists include a map of smokefree cities and states, an overview of all the smokefree laws, a summary list of the U.S. population protected by 100% smokefree state/local laws, and lists of municipalities with 100% smokefree workplaces, restaurants, and/or bars.
Cancer Facts: Questions and Answers About Cigar Smoking and Cancer
This fact sheet put out by the National Cancer Institute, offers quick information on the health hazards of cigar smoking and compares the health hazards of cigar smoking versus cigarette smoking.
FindLaw: Legal News and Commentary
FindLaw is "the highest-trafficked legal Web site, providing the most comprehensive set of legal resources on the Internet." Its coverage of tobacco litigation is particularly comprehensive, giving the searcher news articles, actual court documents, and links to related sites on tobacco litigation. (Note: this website covers many topics in addition to tobacco litigation.)
Smoking & Tobacco Use
Dedicated to "...eliminating the suffering and death due to cancer" this site has links to common cancer types such as lung cancer.Treatment links to information on surgery, radiation and chemotherapy, and vaccine therapy.Clinical Trials provide information on trial results and allows you to search for treatments and trials within your geographic location.Prevention provides links to a potential lung cancer gene, screening, and testing. Cancer Statistics advises how to find statistics and interpret the findings. Cancer Literataure allows you to search cancer research in the PubMed database of the National Library of Medicine.
TobaccoPedia
This site offers access to all forms of information regarding the tobacco industry, health effects of active and passive smoking, addiction and pharmacology, smoking cessation, smoke free areas, packaging and warnings, advertising and promotion, and the economics of tobacco consumption. It provides links to other megasites on tobacco.
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October 31, 2007
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