AHC News Alert Collection of health stories, including extensive coverage of tobacco. 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. Asbestos and Cigarettes Asbestos and cigarettes both cause lung cancer, but some types of lung cancer are specific to one cause. A short summary of the facts.
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Bibliography on smoking and health A selection of Addiction Research Foundation library materials on smoking and health. Risk Abstract of research provided by the National Cancer Institute. Cigars and pipe tobacco cause lung cancer. Emphsema Foundation tells what it's like to live with the disease. Cigarettes cause cancer Article in Chemistry and Industry magazine.