Tobacco
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- Washington Post: Secondhand Smoke Linked to Increased Heart Attack Rate
- Article on a major study finding that high exposure to secondhand smoke nearly doubles a woman's risk of having a heart attack. (May 20, 1997)
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- Cigars and Tobacco-related Cancers
- Scientific paper estimates the effects of cigars; covers the death caused, not disease.
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- Pipe Smoking and Health
- An MD examines the risks and benefits of pipe smoking in terms of health and well being.
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- 'Safer' Cigarettes May Be Not Be Safer
- Recent research finds that Advance, Eclipse, and Accord, which are marketed as safer, may not be safer at all, and may even lead to increased addiction.
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- Cigarettes are Nicotine Delivery Devices
- Collection of FDA papers in PDF format, much of which concerns design and manufacture of cigarettes.
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- FTC Accepts Settlements of Charges that "Alternative" Cigarette Ads Are Deceptive
- FTC action highlights claims made by makers of "natural" or "no additives" cigarettes.
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- Low Tar Product Category
- Case study of tobacco industry internal marketing documents shows considerable concern with exploiting smokers' perceptions that low-tar product were safer, and no concern with actually making the product safer. [PDF]
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- Researcher Publishes First Measurements of 'Free-base' Nicotine in Cigarette Smoke
- Research measures a more highly addictive form of nicotine in cigarettes and finds that "the modern cigarette does to nicotine what crack does to cocaine".
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- Search for a Safe Cigarette
- Chronicles the tobacco industry's attempts to create a "safer" cigarette. Companion Web site to a NOVA (PBS) television show broadcast on October 2, 2001.
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- Smoking Kills: The Tobacco White Paper
- Speech by Cliff Douglas to the Roy Castle Lung Cancer Foundation, detailing the different ways cigarette product is engineered for addiction. [PDF]
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- The Safer Cigarette: What the Tobacco Industry Could Do..and Why It Hasn't Done it
- ASH-UK paper; a survey of 25 years of patents for innovations to reduce toxic and carcinogenic chemicals in tobacco smoke.
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- Public Misled Over Fire-safe Cigarettes
- New Scientist article reports the tobacco industry misled the public and legislators over fire-safe cigarettes, according to internal tobacco industry documents. (December 19, 2002)
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- ScienceDaily Magazine -- Tobacco Smoke Flavoring Contains Hazardous Chemicals
- Scientists have new data that toxic flavoring chemicals put in cigarettes are reaching smokers through cigarette smoke and may pose health hazards of their own. (May 09, 2000)
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- EPA/ORD/NCEA - Passive Smoking - ETS
- Effects of secondhand smoke on children and adults: asthma attacks, lower respiratory tract infections such as bronchitis and pneumonia; buildup of fluid in the middle ear; upper respiratory tract irritation; lung cancer. Does not cover heart disease effects.
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- Environmental Tobacco Smoke Harms and Kills
- Factsheet; all sources cited. "Environmental Tobacco Smoke [ETS], or secondhand smoke, is the third leading cause of preventable disease, disability and death in the U.S.; the first is active smoking." Summary of how the tobacco industry denies the facts about secondhand smoke with intimidation and disinformation campaigns.
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- Health Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke
- Report, resources, and set of annotated links from the Smoke-Free Environments Law Project.
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- Health Effects of Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke
- California EPA report; HTML and gzipped Word formats provided.