Tobacco - A to Z
This page links to content about tobacco and cancer.
Worldwide, tobacco consumption caused an estimated 100 million deaths in the last century and if current trends continue it will kill 1,000 million in the 21st century.
As well as the harm caused by smoked tobacco, smokeless tobacco is also associated with several cancers such as mouth and oesophageal cancer.
Find out more using the links below.
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Tobacco is a sub-category of Causes of cancer and Lifestyle
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- Additives in cigarettes
- Causes of cancer - Carcinogens
- Common questions about smoking and cancer
- January 2010 podcast transcript
- Our policy on smokefree legislation
- Our progress and achievements from 1902 to 1959
- Our progress and achievements in the 2000s
- 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?
- Source of the chemicals in cigarettes
- Tobacco and cancer risk - statistics
- Breathe competition
- Causes of cancer - Lifestyle
- Concentration of chemicals in cigarettes
- Our impact on lung cancer
- Our policy on tobacco control
- Our progress and achievements in the 1990s
- Prof Gerard Hastings
- Real life stories
- Smoking and cancer
- Smoking and cancer: Giving up
- Smoking and cancer: Second-hand smoke
- Smoking and cancer: Why do people smoke?
- Tobacco and Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Bill 2009
- Tobacco, smoking and cancer: the evidence
Latest Tobacco news from Cancer Research UK
- Press Release: Public back an end to tobacco marketing to children
14 May 2012 - Press Release: New report and film reveal shocking impact of tobacco packaging on children
26 April 2012 - News story: Cigarette display ban comes into force
10 April 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 - Press Release: Cigarettes, diet, alcohol and obesity behind more than 100,000 cancers
7 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 - Press Release: Plain packaging removes cigarettes' appeal
8 September 2011
- News story: Low awareness of bladder cancer is 'disappointing'
1 May 2012 - News story: Public consultation on plain packaging of cigarettes launched
16 April 2012 - Press Release: HPV pushes oral cancer cases past 6,000 a year
16 March 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: 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: University fights tobacco company to protect data on smoking
1 September 2011
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