Smoking - A to Z
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Smoking causes one in four cancer deaths in the UK. It kills five times more people than road accidents, overdoses, murder, suicide and HIV all put together.
Smoking causes 9 out of 10 cases of lung cancer, and increases the risk of dozens of other cancers.
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Smoking is a sub-category of Causes of cancer, Lifestyle and Tobacco
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- Additives in cigarettes
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- Lesson plan - Design your own health campaign
- Lung cancer - risk factors
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- Our policy on tobacco control
- Pancreatic cancer risk factors
- Prof Gerard Hastings
- Professor Richard Peto
- Smokeless tobacco and cancer
- Smoking and cancer: Children and smoking
- Smoking and cancer: Reasons to quit
- Smoking and cancer: What's in a cigarette?
- Smoking statistics
- Stomach cancer - risk factors
- Tobacco and cancer risk - statistics
- Bladder cancer - risk factors
- Common questions about smoking and cancer
- Kidney cancer risk factors
- Lung cancer - Key Facts
- Oesophageal Cancer Risk Factors
- Our policy on smokefree legislation
- Our research into smoking
- Prof David Phillips
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- Real life stories
- Smoking and cancer
- Smoking and cancer: Giving up
- Smoking and cancer: Second-hand smoke
- Smoking and cancer: Why do people smoke?
- Source of the chemicals in cigarettes
- Tobacco and Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Bill 2009
- Tobacco, smoking and cancer: the evidence
Latest Smoking news from Cancer Research UK
- News story: Low awareness of bladder cancer is 'disappointing'
1 May 2012 - News story: Shisha pipes 'as dangerous as cigarettes'
14 March 2012 - News story: Charities slam tobacco packaging report
20 February 2012 - News story: Tobacco firms withdraw legal challenge to display ban
4 January 2012 - News story: Australian Senate passes cigarette pack reform
14 November 2011 - News story: 'Smokefree generation' lobbies parents
1 November 2011 - News story: Tobacco control policies 'bring healthcare savings'
29 September 2011 - News story: Australia plans cigarette brand ban
26 August 2011 - News story: Study shows benefits of motivational text messages for smoking cessation
29 June 2011 - News story: Cancer Research UK's Professor Sir Richard Peto wins BMJ Group Lifetime Achievement Award
23 May 2011
- News story: Public consultation on plain packaging of cigarettes launched
16 April 2012 - News story: 'One hundred million years of UK life' to be lost to smoking
6 March 2012 - News story: Public smoking bans 'drive down home smoking'
14 February 2012 - News story: New genetic fault linked to lung cancer in non-smokers
22 December 2011 - News story: Tobacco-ad ban 'supported by public'
4 November 2011 - News story: Nicotine substitute cytisine effective at helping smokers to quit
30 September 2011 - News story: University fights tobacco company to protect data on smoking
1 September 2011 - News story: Risk of bladder cancer from smoking higher than previously thought
16 August 2011 - News story: Tobacco companies using 'misleading' data to distort impact of health regulations
13 June 2011 - News story: Government unveils new tobacco control plan
9 March 2011
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