•	Smokers More Likely to Bleed After Throat Surgery   HealthDay
•	Tobacco Marketing Promotes Youth Cigarette Use   HealthDay
•	Stroke Risk in Women Smokers Goes Up by Each Cigarette   HealthDay
•	Gene Variant May Decide Who Smokes and for How Long   HealthDay
•	One-Fifth of British Childhood Cancer Survivors Smoke   HealthDay

Lung cancer may be the best-known risk from smoking, but it isn't the only one. Tobacco affects your heart, your brain, and even the way you look. • Losing my parents to smoking • Cigars and oral cancer • Pipes up in smoke • Smoking and lung cancer • Cigarettes and your heart • Smoker's face and premature wrinkling • Secondhand smoke body-count • Smoking and pregnancy • Chewing tobacco hazards Nicotine is more addictive than heroin, and the average smoker tries two or three times or more before quitting successfully. We'll give you the lowdown on the most effective methods, including: • How to quit smoking • True stories about quitting • Nicotine replacement therapy: More effective than ever • Can alternative medicine help you stop smoking? • Avoiding weight gain after you quit Since the demise of Joe Camel, the tobacco industry has figured out new ways to push nicotine. Meanwhile, the anti-smoking movement is fighting back with a powerful marketing campaign of its own. Read here for: • How to fight big tobacco and win • How to create a smoke-free workplace • California's war on cigarettes • The joys of nonsmoking Many young people think they're just experimenting with smoking, but the experiment often lasts for decades. Why would someone who knows it's dangerous and addictive even start? The answer may surprise you. • Teen smokers • Smoking and college students • A teen anti-smoking campaign that really works • 10 myths about smoking

Q: How many cigarettes do you smoke a day?     1 to 10     11 to 20     21 to 30     31 or more See past polls

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• Alternative Treatments to Help You Quit Smoking • Back Pain and Smoking • Cigars • College Smokers • Finding a Smoking Cessation Class • First Person: Goodbye to Coffin Nails • First Person: Losing My Parents to Smoking • Hazards of Chewing Tobacco and Snuff • Heart Disease and Smoking • Nicotine Replacement Therapy • Pipe Smoking • Quiz: Do You Know Smoking by the Numbers? • Quiz: How Much Do You Know About Secondhand Smoke? • Quiz: How Well Do You Know the Complications From Smoking? • Secondhand Smoke • Smoke Screen: Smoking in Movies • Smoker's Face • Smoking Cessation Classes • Smoking and Digestive Problems • Smoking and Impotence • Smoking and Lung Cancer • Smoking and Pregnancy • Smoking and Weight Gain • Smoking: Ways to Quit for Good • Special Report: 10 Myths About Smoking • Special Report: California's Anti-Tobacco Media Campaign • Special Report: California's Workplace Smoking Ban • Special Report: Dangers of Smokeless Tobacco • Special Report: Fighting Big Tobacco -- and Winning • Special Report: Florida's Truth Campaign Against Smoking • Special Report: Herbal Cigarettes • Special Report: True Stories of Quitting Smoking • Special Report: Women and Smoking • Teen Smokers • The Myth of Safe Cigarettes

Useful Sites • Circle of Friends • QuitNet • American Lung Association -- Tobacco • QuitTobacco.org • Center for Disease Control -- Tobacco Information and Prevention Source (TIPS) • Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids • American Legacy Foundation

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