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[Skipper the cigar aFISHinodo]

A movement needs to be made by the cigar industry to stop cigars from being grouped with cigarettes. Anti smoking advocates are providing misleading information or substituting cigarette information for lack of cigar research.


This artcle "Smoke Screen" gives some pretty good examples.


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In the study, researchers led by Carlos Iribarren, an epidemiologist with the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program in California, tracked about 18,000 men–1,546 cigar smokers and 16,228 nonsmokers–from 1971 through 1995. Overall, the cigar smokers were about twice as likely to develop cancers of the mouth, throat, and lungs; 45 percent more likely to develop chronic obstructive lung disease; and 27 percent more likely to develop coronary heart disease.

I would advocate that at least some (if not all) of this can be explained away by the fact that some cigar smokers allow some smoke to be inhailed.