Web Directory

» American Cancer Society - Cancer Statistics
   Facts and figures, available in pdf format.
   http://www.cancer.org/docroot/stt/stt_0.asp

» American Cancer Society: Harmful Effects of Tobacco
   Information related to use of cigarettes, cigars, smokeless tobacco, and exposure to secondhand smoke.
   http://www.cancer.org/docroot/PED/ped_10_1.asp?sitearea=PED

» Dying of Cancer, She Used Her Last Days to Warn Kids
   At age 42, Barb Tarbox used her last few months of life to go on a speaking tour of Canada schools, to tell them what it's like to be dying of cancer caused by cigarettes.
   http://www.cbc.ca/news/obit/tarbox_barb/

» Most Cancer Is Made, Not Born
   Recent research shows that most cancer is caused by environmental exposure to carcinogens, not from preprogrammed genes; smoking is the single-most important avoidable cause of cancer and is directly responsible for 30 percent of all cases.
   http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/08/10/ED9161.DTL

» NCI: Tobacco and Cancer
   Information from the National Cancer Institute includes questions and answers about tobacco products and their association with cancer. It also includes information about quitting, prevention, clinical trials, research, literature, and statistics.
   http://cancer.gov/cancerinfo/tobacco/

» OncoLink: Smoking and Cancer
   Links compiled by OncoLink.
   http://www.oncolink.com/resources/section.cfm?c=1&s=25

» Paternal Smoking and Cancer among Children of Nonsmoking Mothers
   Scientific paper finds paternal smoking before conception increases risk of the children getting cancer, particularly acute leukemia and lymphoma.
   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9017004?dopt=Abstract

» Prostate Cancer and Smoking
   Slides from a college lecture discusses the association.
   http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/lecture/lec4721/index.htm

» Scots Tobacco Death Toll Studied
   Scotland's title as Europe's lung cancer capital has come under the spotlight at a major anti-smoking conference.
   http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/379366.stm

» Smoking and Cancer
   ASH-UK factsheet covers the difference cancers caused by smoking and tobacco.
   http://oldash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact04.html

» Tobacco, Colorectal Cancer, and Adenomas: A Review of the evidence.
   Another cancer now known to be caused by smoking.
   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8944002?dopt=Abstract