"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.

Provides an opportunity to educate about the effects of cigarettes and other tobacco products.

A support group and education forum dedicated exclusively to the science and art of successful abrupt nicotine cessation.

Report covers the scientific evidence on active smoking, passive smoking, nicotine addiction, price and marketing of cigarettes and other tobacco products, cessation, key conclusions.

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.

Complete online book provides quotes, summaries, and factsheets on: scope of the problem and overall death and disability; demographics; mortality and longevity data; history; secondhand smoke; asthma and allergy; lung cancer; other cancers; heart disease; COPD; other healthproblems; impotence; pregnancy; children and teen smoking; spit tobacco; pipes and cigars; tobacco ingredients and additives; nicotine and addiction; low tar and nicotine cigarettes; quitting; women and smoking; and advertising.

Created and sustained by Christy Turlington, an online resource guide, providing information and links to numerous lung cancer and smoking-cessation related websites. SmokingIsUgly.com is part of Turlington's campaign to raise awareness about the effects of smoking, smoking related diseases and lung cancer.

Short paper by Joseph Califano, former secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.

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.

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".

A complete, online, book, with all citations to the literature. Covers cigarettes, other tobacco products; statistics and trends; health effects; smoking in the workplace and public places; public policy; addiction; quitting; anti-smoking campaigns; and the tobacco industry.

From Australia: cigarettes, tobacco history; current trends; smoking and health, the tobacco industry -- recent revelations; secondhand smoke; young people and smoking; smoking in the workplace; tqitting smoking.

Information on kids and smoking, facts about smoking and addiction.

A quarterly scientific journal covering all aspects of tobacco use prevention and control.

Site explains why "low tar", "light" and "mild" cigarettes are just as harmful as regular cigarettes.

History of tobacco, types of use, male and female smoking, youth, cigarette consumption, health effects, secondhand smoke, deaths, costs; the trade, the industry, smuggling, tobacco promotion and marketing, Internet sales, politics; activism, research, tobacco control, policy initiatives; quitting, litigation, pricing, and futures.

List of stars and performers killed by tobacco.

NIH short summary of nicotine effects.

Concise factsheet.

Recent research shows that cigarette products cause addiction much faster than was previously believed, in just a few doses.

Independent research confirms that ammonia added to ciarettes can boost the availability of nicotine up to 100 times.

1996 Pulitzer prize-winning reporting on how the tobacco industry uses ammonia to engineer cigarettes for addiction.

Science Week article focuses on 3 decades of tobacco industry efforts to engineer cigarettes for addiction.

Documentation on how Tobacco Companies manipulate tobacco to keep smokers hooked - From the About.com Guide

Provides information on industry manipulation and control of nicotine in cigarettes.

New research measures amount of free-base nicotine in "the modern cigarette, a highly engineered nicotine delivery device".

1994 news article. Kessler report on how the tobacco industry controls and manipulates nicotine in its product.

Now-famous segment on nicotine manipulation in cigarettes.

Reveals that 70% of all people still smoking have tried to quit, on average four times, and most are aware of tobacco's health effects; poll results called a metric of the power of tobacco addiction.

Can cigarettes be made less addictive? Scientific paper examines the question.

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.

Information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse about nicotine, addiction, the extent and impact of tobacco use, how nicotine delivers its effect, consequences of continued use, treatments, and gender differences.

Information about nictoine delivery, addiction, medical consequences, and differences based on culture, age, and gender.