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

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

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

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

Addicted to Nicotine: A National Research Forum
http://www.nida.nih.gov/meetsum/nicotine/Nicotine.html
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, and treatment of nicotine dependence.

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

Cancer Facts and Figures
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/stt/stt_0.asp
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.

CDC's TIPS: Tobacco Information and Prevention Source
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/
Maintained by the CDC's Office on Smoking and Health. Covers tobacco-related issues, statistics, news, research, data, reports, quitting tips, educational materials, publications, . Also sections dedicated to youth.

eMedicine - Nicotine Addiction
http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic1642.htm
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.

Harris Poll: Tobacco Addiction
http://www.harriszone.com/press/PowerOfTobacco.html
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.

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

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

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