Nicotine
Growing Up Tobacco Free: Preventing Nicotine Addiction in Children and Youths
Complete 300 page book online. Covers: addiction, social norms and the acceptability of tobacco use, prevention policy, tobacco advertising and promotion, and research results on prevention and cessation of tobacco use.
www.nap.edu
Memos Show Tobacco Firms Were Obsessed With Nicotine
New York Times article reports on confidential internal memos of Philip Morris, Lorillard, and RJ Reynolds.
taxa.psyc.missouri.edu
DrugsTV
Articles on all of the major categories of drugs from alcohol and nicotine to crack cocaine and heroin.
www.drugstv.com
Tobacco Company CEOs Declare Under Oath that Nicotine is Not Addictive
Transcript of the famous congressional hearings in which 7 tobacco CEOs declared that nicotine is not addictive.
www.jeffreywigand.com
Public Versus Private Statements Made by the Tobacco Industry
From the book The Cigarette Papers, footnoted table documents 30 years of public and private statements made by the tobacco industry regarding nicotine and addiction.
www.library.ucsf.edu
Nicotine Addiction to Disease: Growing Up With the Tobacco Industry
Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute materials covers history and consequences of tobacco use.
www.yale.edu
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.
www.emedicine.com
The Tobacco Industry In Its Own Words
Quotes from tobacco industry memos show what the industry says in private about nicotine, cigarette design, nicotine manipulation, marketing to children, the disease caused by the product, and what to say in public.
www.no-smoking.org
How Stuff Works: How Nicotine Works
Illustrated tutorial describes how nicotine can be a stimulant or a depressant, depending on when used and how much.
www.howstuffworks.com
FDA approves nicotine lozenge
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cnn.com
Nicotine Addiction
Concise factsheet.
www1.umn.edu
Marijuana Alternatives
Sells alternative marijuana herbal blends and nicotine free cigarettes.
www.herbsmoke.com
Stopsmokingtoday.com
Sells nicotine patch, gum, and inhalers.
www.stopsmokingtoday.com
PhaseOut
Pokes holes in the filter, which is claimed to reduce nicotine. Effectiveness: the company "disclaims all warranties, including fitness for a particular purpose."
www.holgers.com
Measurements of Eclipse
Research measurement finds that Eclipse exposes the user to significant quantities of nicotine and carbon monoxide, just like cigarettes.
journalsonline.tandf.co.uk
FDA rules nicotine water an illegal drug
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cnn.com
Filtered Cigarettes
Product is a device claimed to filter nicotine from the cigarette; no quit effectiveness claim made.
www.filteredcigarettes.com
Smoking: truth or dare
Focus is on the consequences of smoking here and now, not maybe later. Here and now, smoking robs teens of their looks, nicotine addiction takes over their lives, and empties their wallets.
www.factmonster.com
Nicotine Addiction in Britain
Extensive report produced by the Royal College of Physicians. "Nicotine addiction is one of the major reasons why people continue to smoke cigarettes, and cigarettes are in reality extremely effective and closely controlled nicotine delivery devices".
www.rcplondon.ac.uk
Statement on Nicotine-Containing Cigarettes by David A. Kessler, M.D.
Provides information on industry manipulation and control of nicotine in cigarettes.
www.fda.gov
The Dope on Nicotine
NOVA episode on nicotine, addiction, and tobacco products.
www.pbs.org
Philip Morris Memo Likens Nicotine to Cocaine
Reprint of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize winner for national reporting.
www.pulitzer.org
How the Industry Argues That Nicotine Is Not Addictive
Analysis of the industry argument that nicotine is not addictive. Extensive documentation on how industry PR misleads and confuses the public about the science, on a critical issue: addiction.
tc.bmjjournals.com
Policy on Nicotine and Tobacco
Short policy statement from Virginia Commonwealth University outlines College on Problems of Drug Dependence position on nicotine and tobacco use.
views.vcu.edu
Illinois Coalition Against Tobacco
Pulls together information on tobacco, nicotine and addictdion, secondhand smoke, media advocacy, youth, tobacco additives, and women and tobacco.
www.ilcat.org
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.
www.cfah.org
Nicotine Free Cigarettes
Cigarettes made from the cocoa bean don't contain nicotine. Makes no quit effectiveness claim or safety claim.
nicotinefreecigarettes.com
Men and smoking
Compilation of articles by Menstuff on smoking and impotence, spit tobacco, influences undermining public health efforts, smokefree living, secondhand smoke, and nicotine addiction.
www.menstuff.org
Alphaware
Providing an array of alternative drugs, synthetic caffeine, nicotine, alcohol, processed sugar.
www.alphaware.olm.net
WhyQuit - Cold Turkey Quitting
A support group quitting forum and education program devoted to the science, psychology and art of abrupt nicotine cessation.
WhyQuit.com
Free-basing Nicotine: State of the Art
1973 R. J. Reynolds discovery of why Philip Morris's Marlboro was selling so well: it was being engineered with ammonia to increase the nicoctine kick.
www.tobacco.org
Help4All
An online community resource. Information on abuse and addiction to alcohol, drugs, food, gambling, and tobacco (nicotine), and resources for recovery.
www.Help4All.net
Health Risks Associated With Cigar Smoking
AMA report summarizes findings from a scientific conference, including cigars cause nicotine addiction and lung cancer.
jama.ama-assn.org
Clearing the Smoke: Assessing the Science Base for Tobacco Harm Reduction
Online book runs to 700 pages and has chapters on: harm reduction, tobacco products, nicotine pharmacology, tobacco smoke and toxicology, cancer, heart disease, birth defects, and tobacco industry marketing of health claims.
books.nap.edu
Tampa Bay Detox
Outpatient drug detox for opiates, heroin, methadone, pain pills, nicotine, and alcohol addiction. In Tampa, FL.
www.tampabaydetox.com
Nicotinell
Nicotine Lozenges.
www.nicotinell.co.uk
Nicotine-reduced cigarettes reach market
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cnn.com
Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of moist snuff in humans
Article in scientific journal. Tested several brands of snuff. Measured results in human volunteers. "Large amounts of nicotine were delivered rapidly to the bloodstream".
tc.bmjjournals.com
Oral Cancer: the Tobacco Connection
Oral Cancer Foundation information on the problem, advertising and economics, types of tobacco, demographics, nicotine and addiction, and quitting tobacco.
www.oralcancerfoundation.org
Assured Testing Resources
Drug free urine substitution system delivers laboratory tested drug, alcohol, and nicotine free urine.
www.pretestedurine.com
Nicotine Studied as Treatment for Brain Disorders
News article in Boston Globe about research indicating that nicotine seems to diminish mental impairment stemming from stress or an underactive thyroid, and may help people with brain disorders ranging from Alzheimer's disease to schizophrenia.
www.boston.com
Nicotine Addiction
Treatment and prevention information for healthcare professionals and the public.
www.athealth.com
Tobacco Explained: The Truth About The Tobacco Industry In Its Own Words
ASH UK paper based on a review of thousands of internal tobacco industry documents that "reveal the most astonishing systematic corporate deceit". Covers industry knowledge, strategy, and action on smoking and health; nicotine and addiction; marketing to children; advertising; cigarette design; passive smoking; emerging markets; women.
www.ash.org.uk
eye - The Cigarette Papers
New evidence shows how Canadian tobacco companies marketed to minors, and manipulated nicotine. Article from Eye magazine.
www.eye.net
De-Nics
Product is herb pills said to remove nicotine dependence. No effectiveness claim made.
www.de-nics.com
Manufacturing Tobacco
Science site explains how the tobacco industry controls nicotine levels and uses ammonia to engineer the product for addiction.
www.lsc.org
Gum Auctions
Sells discounted nicotine gum, with express delivery within the United States.
www.gumauctions.com
The Truth About "Light" Cigarettes
Women's Cancer Network explains why the lower tar and nicotine numbers are misleading, the cigarettes are designed to trick the smoking machines, and light cigarettes are no less lethal.
wcn.org
Philip Morris Tried to `Bury' Damaging Nicotine Research
News article; secret memos reveal that Philip Morris officials suggested that internal documents about research should be destroyed, and negative information should be kept secret.
www.s-t.com
Nicotine and Addiction
ASH-UK factsheet on nicotine, its properties, and how cigarettes and tobacco products deliver it to the body.
www.ash.org.uk
Multinational Monitor: The Tobacco Papers
Formerly secret industry documents. "Buying votes, buying friends" tobacco industry political influence; Big Tobacco and the Law; Big Tobacco goes global; Smoking Guns I: Marketing to Kids; Smoking Guns II: Nicotine Manipulation.
multinationalmonitor.org
Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Information on the latest research, abstracts, publications and events related to nicotine and tobacco.
www.srnt.org
Nicotine-Like Drugs Can Enhance Learning and Memory
Report by Duke University behavioral pharmacologist Edward Levin that nicotine-like compounds help restore the ability to learn and remember in rats that have brain lesions similar to those found in Alzheimer's disease patients. Reported in Science Daily News.
www.sciencedaily.com
"Crack" Nicotine in Cigarettes Varies Widely
New research measures amount of free-base nicotine in "the modern cigarette, a highly engineered nicotine delivery device".
www.newscientist.com
The Tobacco Industry's Use of Nicotine as a Drug
ACSH report by Clifford Douglas.
www.acsh.org
FindHelp
A nonprofit corporation established to research, educate, advocate, and assist in the treatment of nicotine dependence.
www.findhelp.com
One Step at a Time
Set of four filters. Each filter claimed to remove progressively more tar and nicotine, which is then claimed to wean smokers from addiction. No effectiveness measurements presented.
www.cigarettefilters.com
Some nicotine-laced water pulled from stores
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cnn.com
BBC News: Nicotine Help for Tourette's
Nicotine patches may help patients with Tourette's syndrome control involuntary movements.
news.bbc.co.uk
Nicotine Junkies
Information on kids and smoking, facts about smoking and addiction.
whyfiles.org
Cigarettes: a Complex Cocktail of Chemicals
BBC Report. More than 600 substances can be legally added to cigarettes, many of which act to increase the addictive impact of nicotine.
news.bbc.co.uk
NicoBloc
Product is corn syrup drops claimed to block nicotine when dropped on the cigarette.
www.nicobloc.com
"Light" Cigarettes, Heavy Damage
National Cancer Institute finds that low-tar, low-nicotine cigarettes are no safer than any other cigarettes, contrary to tobacco industry marketing messages of less risk.
www.drkoop.com
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.
free.freespeech.org
The Nicotine Network
Series of articles in Mother Jones magazine. Particular emphasis on "astoturf": front groups created by PR firms to look like "grass roots" organizations.
bsd.mojones.com
Proceedings of INGCAT International NGO Mobilisation Meeting -Table of Contents
Hosted on Islam Set site, proceedings include articles on tobacco, tobacco control, nicotine, addiction, secondhand smoke.
www.islamset.com
Common Cause Report: Return on Investment: Nicotine Fix
1997 report on tax breaks given by Congress to the tobacco industry after tobacco became a top giver of soft money.
www.commoncause.org
MASCOT: Multicultural Advocates for Social Change on Tobacco
Statistics, factsheets, and discussion on tobacco policy, smokefree workplaces, retailers selling to youth, industry quotes on nicotine and addiction, and medical costs due to smoking.
www.mascotcoalition.org
Snuff and Loose-leaf have Big Nicotine Doses
Tobacco companies keep secret the nicotine levels in their spit tobacco, but independent measurement finds high levels of nicotine and free-base nicotine.
www.hbns.org
Tobacco's Seven Deadly Secrets of Nicotine Delivery
Article from onocology newsletter summarizes methods of engineering cigarettes for addiction.
www.cancernetwork.com
'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.
www.pulitzer.org
Nicotine Victims
Focus is on tobacco product addiction.
www.nicotinevictims.com
Fetal Nicotine or Cocaine Exposure: Which one is Worse?
Although public and medical attention focuses on fetal cocaine exposure, the epidemiological evidence suggests fetal nicotine exposure does more damage.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov:80
Nicotine and the Tobacco Industry
Science Week article focuses on 3 decades of tobacco industry efforts to engineer cigarettes for addiction.
scienceweek.com
ACS Herbal Tea Co.
Offers herbal products, as well as tests designed to identify use of alcohol, THC, cocaine, opiates and nicotine.
www.passthetest.com
KIK International
Treatment services for addiction to alcohol, methamphetamines, heroin/opiates, cocaine, amphetamines, marijuana, nicotine/smoking. Located in Thailand and Hong Kong.
www.kikasia.com
ABC's Memorandum In Support of Summary Judgement
ABC's court response contains much information on cigarette design and nicotine manipulation.
new.globalink.org
Chicagoland Intergroup of Nicotine Anonymous
Nicotine Anonymous for people in the Chicago area.
www.nicotine-anonymous-chicagoland.org
Oral Nicotine Inhalers
Smoking reduction with oral nicotine inhalers: double blind, randomised clinical trial of efficacy and safety.
bmj.com
Public Versus Private Statements Made by the Tobacco Industry
Report contrasts what the tobacco said publicly with what it said in private, over a period of decades, on the subjects of nicotine and addiction, low-tar and low-nicotine cigarettes and smoker compensation, tobacco industry research and public relations, smoking and disease, and secondhand smoke.
texts.cdlib.org
Prying Open the Door to the Tobacco Industry's Secrets About Nicotine
Article in medical journal surveys industry documents produced in litigation, and finds the tobacco industry knew for decades that nicotine is an addictive drug, and knew ways to design cigarettes to make them more addictive.
jama.ama-assn.org
Tobacco Dependence Program
Dedicated to reducing the harm to health caused by tobacco, through education, treatment, research and advocacy; a program of the New Jersey School of Medicine and Dentistry. Cessation guidelines for individuals and clinicians; tobacco-free policies; chemical dependency and nicotine; consultation and training services.
www.tobaccoprogram.org
Will Nicotine Help Slow Memory Loss?
A study led by Paul Newhouse, M.D., at the University of Vermont will examine nicotine's effect on mild cognitive impairment.
www.uvm.edu
Tobacco & Nicotine & Dental Health
Information and resources on tobacco and dental health from ADA ONLINE, the American Dental Association's Web site.
www.ada.org
FDA - Children and Tobacco
Children and Tobacco: The Food and Drug Administration finds that nicotine in cigarettes and smokeless tobacco is a drug. and that these products are drug delivery devices.
www.fda.gov
Smokefree Kids Fact Sheet
Facts on tobacco use among children, nicotine and nicotine addiction in children, tobacco-caused disease, questions to ask candidates for public office, children and tobacco advertising.
www.smokefreekids.com
Farmers' fate lies in low-nicotine cigarette
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cnn.com
Philip Morris Memo Likens Nicotine to Cocaine
Prizewinning reporting reveals facts about cigarette design and nicotine.
www.pulitzer.org
Industry Executives Knew Nicotine Addictive
What the industry knew, and when it knew it, are the issues examined in this article.
personalmd.com
Secret Tobacco Document Quotes
Tobacco industry internal memos provide an inside look at the industry's knowledge and views of nicotine, addiction, product design, and the customer.
www.tobacco.org
It's Quittin' Time: Smokers Need Not Rely on Willpower Alone
FDA information on the nicotine patch, gum, nasal spray, and inhaler, and Zyban.
www.fda.gov
Nicotine and Addiction: the Brown and Williamson Documents
Once-secret memos show the tobacco industry had a sophisticated and scientifically accurate understanding of nicotine pharmacology, including an explicit recognition of nicotine's addictiveness, more than 30 years ago.
jama.ama-assn.org
Tobacco Unwrapped
The Health Education Board for Scotland provides information and resources about tobacco, such as smokeline and e-smokeline for help with stopping smoking and teenage smoking issues. It also provides guidance, advice and information to help both smokers and health professionals overcome nicotine withdrawal and beat nicotine addiction.
www.hebs.com
Unhooked
Dedicated to helping people break the smoking habit. There is a chat site, bulletin board, as well as links to resources for help in breaking the habit. Fill out the form to find out how much nicotine you are getting in a day.
unhooked.org
Herbal Cigarettes
Roll-your-own mixtures contain no tobacco or nicotine.
www.help4smokers.co.uk
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.
www.cancer.org
Yahoo Groups: Unofficial Nicotine Anonymous
Message board and email support.
groups.yahoo.com
Mayo Clinic Nicotine Dependence Center
Scientifically based approach to quitting tobacco developed and used by the Mayo Clinic. Preparing to quit, ways to help you quit, helping someone else quit.
www.mayoclinic.org
Cigarette design - additives, low-tar and 'safe' cigarettes
ASH UK Paper on development of "free nicotine" product.
www.ash.org.uk
Herbal Cigarettes
Five flavours and two roll your own mixtures of nicotine free and tobacco free products.
www.herbalcigarettes.co.uk
WHO: Tobacco Use by Children
WHO factsheet. Tobacco has been called "a pediatric disease" because almost all smokers start smoking, and become addicted to nicotine, while children. A rundown by WHO on how the tobacco industry views young smokers, how tobacco affects children both firsthand and secondhand, and why kids smoke: to be like adults.
www.who.int
NICOTINE RECORDS
Nicotine Records indipendent label specializated in Punk, R'n'r, Garage, Psychobilly...
www.nicotinerecords.com
Smoker's Misperceptions of Light and Ultra-light Cigarettes May Keep Them Smoking
Research finds that many Light and Ultra-light smokers are unaware that one Ultra-light/Light cigarette can give them the same amount of tar and nicotine as one regular cigarette, and this mistaken belief may be keeping them smoking.
www-east.elsevier.com
University of Michigan Tobacco Research Network
Network of University of Michigan scholars, spanning many disciplines in numerous UM schools and colleges, who share an interest in tobacco and nicotine related research. Tobacco websites, news and events, research.
www.umich.edu
Neuro Solutions
Mark Costello practices acupuncture primarily to treat nicotine addiction, pain, and infertility. Denver, Colorado.
www.neurosolutions.biz
Putting Out The Flame: Smokers who want to quit have more weapons than ever before
Article in the Lexington Herald-Leader looks at nicotine replacement, Zyban, and cold turkey.
www.kentuckyconnect.com
Cigarette study boosts nicotine manipulation claim
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cnn.com
ASAM and Nicotine
Scientific analysis and policy recommendations on tobacco products, from the American Society for Addiction Medicine
www.asam.org
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