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Here are 10 interesting websites that further discuss tobacco's influence on the world. They provide statistics that are both eye opening and discouraging.



 1. http://www.notobacco.org/  This is an anti-tobacco website that has videos and links to other sites that promote the teen anti-smoking campaign. The site helps to guide the current smoker into a smooth transition into quitting.

 2. http://www.thetruth.com/  This website sheds some opinions on flavored cigarettes on the main page. Click on the facts tab to read some alarming statements made by big tobacco representatives.

3. http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/tobaccocancer/secondhand-smoke  For those of us that need convincing that second hand smoke is harmful, this site provides the statistics to back it up. We learn that second hand smoke may actually be more harmful than first hand smoke and how that second hand smoke affects the public.

4. http://www.philipmorrisusa.com/en/cms/Products/Cigarettes/Health_Issues/default.aspx  I found it insightful to visit a tobacco companies website and see what they posted regarding some of the major smoking issues. There was actually quite a decent amount of information to be found about issues such as quitting smoking and health issues.

5. http://www.lung-cancer.com/tobacco.html  This lung cancer site discusses among other things a startling discovery, that smoking one cigarette can shorter a person's life by 10 minutes.

6. http://emphysema.org/ The risk factors involved with smoking are certainly linked to the deadly disease emphysema. A smoker who read some of the facts and numbers discussed on this site would almost surely think twice about their next cigarette.

7. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/12481.php The last time you were behind a large diesel truck which was emitting oodles of smoke it was pretty disgusting right? Read this article to learn that cigarettes produce 10 times the amount of pollution than diesel fuel.

8. http://www.tobacco-facts.info/larynx_cancer.htm This site shows some alarming pictures that would frighten any potential smoker. Laryngeal cancer is the focal point of the page.

9. http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Tobacco/smokeless Think that smokeless tobacco is far less dangerous than cigarettes? Read this page to discover the myriad of oral diseases and cancer they can cause.

10. http://www.no-smoke.org/learnmore.php?id=645 Electronic cigarettes were introduced recently and marketed as a safe alternative to cigarette smoking. This site sheds light on the reality that they contain many harmful ingredients and the belief that adequate research has not been conducted to pronounce them a safe alternative.