Lung Cancer and Other Diseases Caused by Tobacco Products

This page was last updated on May 18, 2004.

• What is the history of lung cancer?
• How do we know that smoking causes lung cancer?
• Are other cancers caused by smoking?
• Does environmental (second hand) smoke cause cancer?
• What about smokeless tobacco?
• What about cigars?
• How does cigarette smoke cause cancer?
• Does tobacco uses produce other (non-malignant) disease?
• What has been done to reduce lung cancer mortality in the fifty years that we have known that smoking causes lung cancer? OR Why have we done so little?
• What is the financial cost ot our society from damage caused by tobacco products?
• What steps can we take to prevent the continued proliferation of the smoking habit?
• How do we convince young people not to start using tobacco?
• How do we know that cigarette smoking is an addiction?
• How can we help a smoker kick the habit?
• Smoking Cessation Advice and Resources:
• What is the risk that a smoker will develop lung cancer and other diseases?
• I'm a woman. Lung cancer is a man's disease. Do I have to worry?
• I am pregnant. Is smoking harmful to my unborn child?
• What about men? Is smoking harmful to my future offspring?
• I am a smoker. What should I do?
• What can I do to help control tobacco? OR Don't get MAD, get JUSTICE!
• Are we making progress in tobacco control?
• What About Asbestos?