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» American Heart Association: Cigarette Smoking And Cardiovascular Diseases
   Cigarettes are the most important preventable cause of premature death in the United State. Most of those deaths are from heart disease, not cancer. The facts from the AHA.
   http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=4545

» Cigarettes Cause Heart Disease in Young People
   Resent research finds that teen-agers and young adults who smoke have three times the level of plaque in a major artery as those who don't smoke.
   http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/EMIHC000/22017/24546/314373.html?d=dmtICNNews

» Ex-Smokers May Have Irreversible Damage To Arteries
   New research studies indicates that while most risks subside after quitting, some damage is not reversible.
   http://www.pslgroup.com/dg/50c52.htm

» Preventing Heart Disease - Smoking
   Short section on smoking and the hart.
   http://www.fauxpress.com/kimball/med/heart/h3/smoking.htm

» Six-month Public Smoking Ban Slashes Heart Attack Rate in Community
   Report on study in which the number of heart attack victims admitted to a regional hospital was found to have dropped by nearly 60 percent during the first six months that a smoke-free ordinance was in effect in the community.
   http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-04/uoc--sps032603.php

» Smoking and Stroke: A Caustive Role
   All tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars, and pipes, cause stroke.
   http://www.differentstrokes.co.uk/smoking.htm

» Smoking, the Heart, and Circulation
   ASH-UK Factsheet on smoking and chronic heart disease, arterial disease, aneurysms, vascular disease, and stroke.
   http://oldash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact06.html