Tobacco home
Source document:
IARC (2002)

Summary & Details:
GreenFacts (2005)
Scientific Facts on

Tobacco Active and Passive Smoking

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Tobacco Links

  1. Factual links

    Some of the websites providing factual information on Tobacco :

    • 1.1 Some Q&As and FAQs on tobacco
    • 1.2 More information for the non-specialist
    • 1.3 Some tobacco news sites
    • 1.4 Some policy-related websites
    • 1.5 Some other websites on tobacco
  2. Other Views

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1. Factual links

1.1 Some Q&As and FAQs on tobacco
  • The Tobacco Control Archives by the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) reccomends a series of sites addressing issues such as general tobacco information, tobacco and health, tobacco industry, etc: www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/tcafaq.html 
1.2 More information for the non-specialist
1.3 Some tobacco news sites
1.4 Some policy-related websites
  • The World Health Organization (WHO) extensively addresses tobacco at its Tobacco Free Initiative webpages (TFI): www.who.int/tobacco/en/ 
1.5 Some other websites on tobacco
 

2. Other Views

Links in this section have been selected as examples of other views on Tobacco. This list of links is only a sample and it is not suggested that it is complete nor that it is fully representative of all the existing views. GreenFacts asbl takes no position concerning the views expressed in these linked documents.

Conclusions of some other recent reports

  • The report of the U.S. Surgeon General on the Health Effects of Smoking (2004) documents the other adverse effects of active smoking (cardiovascular, respiratory and reproduction and fertility) in addition to the effects on cancer incidence which are covered in the IARC report. www.cdc.gov/tobacco/sgr/sgr_2004 
  • California EPA report on passive smoking (1997) www.oehha.org 
  • WHO report on passive smoking (2000) of the Regional Office for Europe  www.euro.who.int/document/aiq/8_1ets.pdf

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