How to prevent heart disease
Concise factsheet explaining how to prevent heart disease, available for downloading in Adobe acrobat format.
American Heart Association: Cigarette Smoking And Cardiovascular Diseases
Cigarettes are the most important preventable cause of premature death in the United State. Most of those deaths are from heart disease, not cancer. The facts from the AHA.
Smoking, the Heart, and Circulation
ASH-UK Factsheet on smoking and chronic heart disease, arterial disease, aneurysms, vascular disease, and stroke.
Stroke Risk Increases With Every Cigarette Smoked
Recent research finds that cigarettes cause all three kinds of stroke, and the more cigarettes, the more strokes.
Smoking and Cardiovascular Disease
Concise summary of effects of smoking on the heart, blood vessels, and brain.
Smoking and Stroke: A Caustive Role
All tobacco products, including cigarettes, cigars, and pipes, cause stroke.
Six-month Public Smoking Ban Slashes Heart Attack Rate in Community
Report on study in which the number of heart attack victims admitted to a regional hospital was found to have dropped by nearly 60 percent during the first six months that a smoke-free ordinance was in effect in the community.
Preventing Heart Disease - Smoking
Short section on smoking and the hart.
The Connection Between Smoking and Heart Disease
What cigarettes and other tobacco products do to the heart and arteries; how they cause hypertension, stroke, and heart disease.
Cigarettes Cause Heart Disease in Young People
Resent research finds that teen-agers and young adults who smoke have three times the level of plaque in a major artery as those who don't smoke.
Ex-Smokers May Have Irreversible Damage To Arteries
New research from one of the most comprehensive studies indicates that while most risks subside after quitting, some damage is not reversible.
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