Curated OER
Web Gallery of Art: A Man Cutting Tobacco
An image of "A Man Cutting Tobacco", created by Werner Jacobsz Van Den Valckertz (Oil on oak panel, 67 x 52 cm).
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: Gallbladder and Bile Duct Cancer
This site from Intelihealth provides a thorough overview of gallbladder and bile duct cancer. Includes information on symptoms, treatment, prevention, and much more.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Inteli Health: Pancreatic Cancer
This site from Intelihealth provides a thorough overview of pancreatic cancer. Includes information on symptoms, treatment, prevention, and much more.
Aetna Intelihealth
Aetna: Women: How to Quit Smoking
Article relating facts specific to women about the effects of smoking. Offers tips such as completing a "Why I Want to Quit Smoking," list to help them quit and offers advice to help them break the habit.
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Nida: Behavioral Problems Related to Maternal Smoking
This resource provides information about the dangers of smoking while pregnant, and the affects on children in the future.
University of Utah
University of Utah: Learn. Genetics: Lifestyle Choices and Risk
Overview of how to make the right lifestyle choices by maintaining a healthy weight through good nutrition and exercise.
Wikimedia
Wikipedia: Delhi, Ontario
Norfolk County, Ontario consists of small communities located in a region that has been the centre of the Ontario tobacco industry. This article on the town of Delhi provides information on the community's history, geography, tourism and...
Curated OER
National Park Service: John Rolfe
The National Park Service provides basic biographical facts on John Rolfe whose experiments with tobacco planting provided a profit for the Jamestown colony.
American Heart Association
American Heart Association: Smoking & Cardiovascular Disease (Heart Disease)
Learn the risks of smoking and how it causes cardiovascular disease. The article includes the risks and health effects of smoking, information on secondhand smoke, and resources and tools for kicking the habit.
Siteseen
Siteseen: Land of the Brave: John Rolfe and Pocahontas
Overview and biographical facts on the life of John Rolfe, husband of Pocahontas who had the first successful cultivation of tobacco as an export crop in the Colony of Virginia.
Curated OER
Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Nc: Duke Homestead and Tobacco Factory
Homestead and factory of Washington Duke.
PBS
Africans in America: Virginia Looks Toward Africa for Labor
This website explains why Virginia needed laborers, why it led to the use of African labor and how it was justified by Christians. Hyperlinks to related topics on the site.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: China's Chances of Kicking a Growing Smoking Habit
Explore the growing smoking habit in China, especially among males.
Government of Canada
Health Canada: The Scoop on Smoking
In addition to giving the facts about smoking, this youth-focused resource also deals with many young people's misconception that they are immune from the negative effects of smoking. For instance, smoking reduces the rate of lung growth...
Government of Canada
Health Living: Smoking Diseases
Learn about all the different diseases you can get by smoking. Smoking increases your chances of heart disease, smoke, and lung cancer, to name just a few. Find out the link between impotence and smoking, as well as to bronchitis and...
National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Magnet Academy: Mri Research
When you have the most powerful MRI machine in the world, there's a lot of exciting research going on. Read about some of the cutting-edge studies we do on neurodegenerative diseases, cancer, tobacco use, muscles and more.
University of Washington
University of Washington Libraries: Early Advertising of the West
Here is a gold mine of information about advertising from 1867 to 1918 in the western part of the United States, particularly the Pacific Northwest. This collection of 450 ads shows social, cultural, and economic trends during this time...
Other
The Oral Cancer Foundation
How does tobacco use influence the development of oral cancer? You will find answers here at this site.
Other
Streetdrugs.org: Education Resources
Detailed information about individual drugs. Targets students, parents, teachers, law enforcement officials, and health professionals.
Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic: Secondhand Smoke
Use this site to learn why a "Burning cigarette is a health risk to everyone in the same room." This web-article describes the various hazards associated with secondhand smoke and includes information on its effect on children. Also,...
BBC
Bbc: History: Industrial Revolution
Learn how the Industrial Revolution affected Scotland and the roles that Scots like Joseph Black and James Watt, among others, played. Subtopics include the chemical revolution, commercial revolution, and New Lanark and the factory system.
University of Washington
University of Washington: Alcohol and the Brain
Suitable for upper elementary and up, this is a thorough explanation of what alcohol does to the body and nervous system. Includes information about fetal alcohol syndrome and links to further information.
University of California
Program in Bioscience and Biotechnology Studies: Wendell Meredith Stanley
The University of California, Berkeley provides a good biography of Nobel Prize winner, Wendell Meredith Stanley (1904-1971). This site gives information on his research on the crystallization of viruses.
Discovering Lewis & Clark
Discovering Lewis & Clark: On Jefferson's River
This section from Discovering Lewis & Clark provides observations and views from the expedition's journey down the Jefferson River in 1805.
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