Or check out some other Links for in-depth info on a variety of topics. Norris Health Center provides information on smoking, smoking cessation, smokeless tobacco, alcohol, alcohol abuse programs, drugs, and drug abuse programs. Each year more Americans die from smoking-related diseases than from AIDS, drug abuse, car accidents, and homicide combined.
Smoking is a major cause of emphysema, lung cancer, and chronic bronchitis.
The U.S. Surgeon General reported in 1988 that nicotine is just as addictive as heroin and cocaine. Smokeless tobacco is no more safe than cigarettes. Smokeless tobacco can cause mouth cancer, gum disease, tooth loss, high blood pressure, stomach and throat cancer, and reduction of taste and smell. Second-hand smoke is dangerous to smokers and nonsmokers alike. Each time someone smokes, poisons are released into the air.