"Crack" Nicotine in Cigarettes Varies Widely
   New research measures amount of free-base nicotine in "the modern cigarette, a highly engineered nicotine delivery device".
   http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99993990

'Impact Booster': Tobacco Firm Shows How Ammonia Spurs Delivery of Nicotine
   1996 Pulitzer prize-winning reporting on how the tobacco industry uses ammonia to engineer cigarettes for addiction.
   http://www.pulitzer.org/year/1996/national-reporting/works/impact.html

A Collection of Articles on Nicotine Addiction
   Articles about research studies funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
   http://www.nida.nih.gov/NIDA_Notes/NN0031.html

ABC DayOne: Smoke Screen
   Now-famous segment on nicotine manipulation in cigarettes.
   http://www.mcspotlight.org/beyond/abctranscript.html

Addicted to Nicotine: A National Research Forum
   Includes presentation summaries of papers presented at the conference held in 2001 at the (US) National Institutes of Health. Topics include nicotine delivery systems, pharmacology, individual and environmental risk factors, the psychobiology of addition,
   http://www.nida.nih.gov/meetsum/nicotine/Nicotine.html

Ammonia Added to Cigarettes Can Significantly Boost Availability of Nicotine
   Independent research confirms that ammonia added to ciarettes can boost the availability of nicotine up to 100 times.
   http://www.ndsn.org/AUGUST97/AMMONIA.html

Cancer Facts and Figures
   Concise summary from the American Cancer Society of tobacco use, cigarettes, trends in smoking, profiling smokers, costs of tobacco, nicotine addiction, secondhand smoke, spit tobacco, and industrial hazards.
   http://www.cancer.org/docroot/stt/stt_0.asp

Harris Poll: Tobacco Addiction
   Reveals that 70% of all people still smoking have tried to quit, on average four times, and most are aware of tobacco's health effects; poll results called a metric of the power of tobacco addiction.
   http://www.harriszone.com/press/PowerOfTobacco.html

Infofax - Cigarettes and Other Nicotine Products
   NIH short summary of nicotine effects.
   http://www.nida.nih.gov/Infofax/tobacco.html

Low Tar Exposed
   Site explains why "low tar", "light" and "mild" cigarettes are just as harmful as regular cigarettes.
   http://www.lowtarexposed.org/

M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - Tobacco & Cancer
   University of Texas medical center factsheets on effects of smoking and tobacco, and tips and support for quitting. One-third of M. D. Anderson patients have tobacco-related cancers.
   http://www.mdanderson.org/topics/smoking

Nicotine Addiction
   Concise factsheet.
   http://www1.umn.edu/perio/tobacco/nicaddct.html

Nicotine Addiction And Cigarettes
   American Lung Association info sheets on smoking, nicotine, and related topics: does smoking help people relax? What quitting methods work?
   http://www.lungusa.org/tobacco/tobacco_general_index.html

Nicotine Addiction Can Start Within A Few Days And After Just A Few Cigarettes
   Recent research shows that cigarette products cause addiction much faster than was previously believed, in just a few doses.
   http://www.cfah.org/hbns/newsrelease/nicotine9-12-00.cfm

Nicotine Addiction in Britain
   Complete online book by the Royal College of Physicians; covers physical. pharmacological, and psychological effects; addiction; the smoker's career; regulation of intake; treatment; regulatory approaches; recommendations.
   http://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/pubs/books/nicotine/

Nicotine Junkies
   Information on kids and smoking, facts about smoking and addiction.
   http://whyfiles.org/024nicotine/

Nicotine and Addiction
   ASH-UK factsheet on nicotine, its properties, difficulty in quitting, measures of dependence, withdrawal systems, genetic influence, and tobacco industry recognition of the its importance.
   http://www.ash.org.uk/html/factsheets/html/fact09.html

Nicotine and the Tobacco Industry
   Science Week article focuses on 3 decades of tobacco industry efforts to engineer cigarettes for addiction.
   http://scienceweek.com/swfr047.htm

OncoLink: The Control and Manipulation of Nicotine and Cigarettes
   1994 news article. Kessler report on how the tobacco industry controls and manipulates nicotine in its product.
   http://free.freespeech.org/transgenicos/transgenicos/perolas/y-1/kessler.htm

Quit Victoria
   "Tobacco smoking is the single most important cause of ill health and premature death in Australia." Not just quitting information -- health questions answered; effects of cigarettes; quit evaluation studies; information in languages other than
   http://www.quit.org.au/

Reducing the Addictiveness of Cigarettes
   Can cigarettes be made less addictive? Scientific paper examines the question.
   http://tc.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/7/3/281?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&titleabstract=Reducing+the+addictiveness+of+cigarettes&searchid=QID_NOT_SET&stored_search=&FIRSTINDEX=&fdate=12/1/1997&tdate=2/

Report of the UK Scientific Committee on Tobacco and Health
   Report covers the scientific evidence on active smoking, passive smoking, nicotine addiction, price and marketing of cigarettes and other tobacco products, cessation, key conclusions.
   http://www.doh.gov.uk/public/scoth.htm

Research Report: Nicotine Addiction
   Information from the National Institute on Drug Abuse about nicotine, addiction, the extent and impact of tobacco use, how nicotine delivers its effect, consequences of continued use, treatments, and gender differences.
   http://www.drugabuse.gov/researchreports/nicotine/nicotine.html

Smoking And Tobacco Factsheets
   From the Missouri Health Department, a large set of factsheets on cigarettes, tobacco advertising, health effects, and secondhand smoke.
   http://www.health.state.mo.us/SmokingAndTobacco/FSST.html

Smoking Is Ugly
   Created and sustained by Christy Turlington, an online resource guide, providing information and links to numerous lung cancer and smoking-cessation related websites. SmokingIsUgly.com is part of Turlington's campaign to raise awareness about the effects
   http://www.smokingisugly.com

Spiking Tobacco: How to Keep Smokers Hooked - SMOKING CESSATION - 7/19/99
   Documentation on how Tobacco Companies manipulate tobacco to keep smokers hooked - From the About.com Guide
   http://quitsmoking.about.com/health/quitsmoking/library/weekly/aa071999.htm?iam=dp&terms=tobacco+disease

Statement on Nicotine-Containing Cigarettes by David A. Kessler, M.D.
   Provides information on industry manipulation and control of nicotine in cigarettes.
   http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/SPEECH/SPE00052.htm

TCSG - Tobacco and The Elderly
   Papers and factsheets on: tobacco and minorities, state tobacco settlement funds, tobacco and older persons.
   http://www.tcsg.org/tobacco.htm

The Science Behind Tobacco: Health and Smoking
   Information about nictoine delivery, addiction, medical consequences, and differences based on culture, age, and gender.
   http://www.lsc.org/tobacco/health/intro_health.html

The Tobacco Reference Guide
   Complete online book provides quotes, summaries, and factsheets on: scope of the problem and overall death and disability; demographics; mortality and longevity data; history; secondhand smoke; asthma and allergy; lung cancer; other cancers; heart disease
   http://www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/

Tobacco Advertising and Document Collections
   Growing set of resources presenting and organizing tobacco industry documents; shows what the industry says in in private about youth, advertising, promotions; features a poster on the history of youth cigarette brands.
   http://roswell.tobaccodocuments.org/

Tobacco Control Online
   A quarterly scientific journal covering all aspects of tobacco use prevention and control.
   http://tc.bmjjournals.com/

Tobacco Industry Hall of Shame
   List of stars and performers killed by tobacco.
   http://roswell.tobaccodocuments.org/hall_of_shame.htm

Tobacco Web
   From Australia: cigarettes, tobacco history; current trends; smoking and health, the tobacco industry -- recent revelations; secondhand smoke; young people and smoking; smoking in the workplace; tqitting smoking.
   http://www.nswcc.org.au/editorial.asp?pageid=369

Tobacco in Australia: Facts and Issues
   A complete, online, book, with all citations to the literature. Covers cigarettes, other tobacco products; statistics and trends; health effects; smoking in the workplace and public places; public policy; addiction; quitting; anti-smoking campaigns; and
   http://www.quit.org.au/quit/FandI/welcome.htm

Tobacco: The Moral Issues
   Short paper by Joseph Califano, former secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare.
   http://www.americamagazine.org/articles/califtobac.htm

TobaccoFree
   Offers smoking cessation tips, research results, and tips for staying smoke free.
   http://www.tobaccofree.org/

WHO Tobacco Free Initiative (TFI)
   A WHO cabinet project created to focus international attention, resources and action on global tobacco use and problems caused by that use.
   http://www.who.int/tobacco/en/

WHO: The Tobacco Atlas
   History of tobacco, types of use, male and female smoking, youth, cigarette consumption, health effects, secondhand smoke, deaths, costs; the trade, the industry, smuggling, tobacco promotion and marketing, Internet sales, politics; activism, research, to
   http://www.who.int/tobacco/statistics/tobacco_atlas/en/

WhyQuit - Cold Turkey Quitting
   A support group and education forum dedicated exclusively to the science and art of successful abrupt nicotine cessation.
   http://whyquit.com/

World No Tobacco Day
   Provides an opportunity to educate about the effects of cigarettes and other tobacco products.
   http://www.wntd.com/

eMedicine - Nicotine Addiction
   Medical facts on the physiology of nicotine addiction, and the effect tobacco products have on the brain, lungs, and other vital organs, and a treatment options section.
   http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1642.htm