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Articles In The News - January 2003 |
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From San Francisco, CA
-- Cigarettes are a Big Drag on the States Economy. An
article by David Lazarus. Published by the San Francisco
Chronicle, January 19, 2003. |
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SF Chronicle Article |
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More than 400,000 people die of
tobacco-related illnesses in
the U.S. every year -- more than from AIDS, car crashes,
alcohol, suicides, homicides, fire, and illegal drugs combined...(more) |


| Cigarettes contain over 4,000
chemicals including carbon
monoxide, formaldehyde, arsenic, lead, and hydrogen
cyanide (same gas used in the gas chamber). Almost four
dozen of these chemicals are known to cause cancer....(more) |

| Some information presented on the Tobacco Survivors
United web site requires the Adobe Acrobat Reader. You can
obtain a copy of the reader by
clicking here. |

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