What's more dangerous, smoking one cigar or one cigarette on a daily basis?
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Quitting smoking is the hardest thing to do.  I quit 4 months ago.  I smoked 2-4 packs a day for over 40 years.  I never considered quitting until they took me to the hospital by ambulance.  I have 1st stage emphysema which is a miracle but will live with the consequences of smoking for the rest of my life.  I wish you well.  I can not imagine smoking one cigarette a day.  It seems a bit ridiculous.  However, if you smoke one cigarette a day, it seems that would not necessarily be bad for you.  Tobacco is an herb and has medicinal properties, but you would have to grow the tobacco yourself, since each cigarette produced by our huge tobacco companies has been enhanced with over an hundred chemicals which go directly to the brain and cause the craving and addiction which has proven too difficult for some people to quit even to the point of death.  I loved smoking for most of my life but have been devastated at the horror of coming "off" of this drug for the last 4 months but am determined to remain smoke free.  I have tried the commit lozenges, nicotrol gum, a nicotrol inhaler and the patch and am using the gum right now.  Hopefully, I will be able to get off of all nicotine by the end of this year but in any case, I am no longer polluting my environment and causing grave harm to my health.  There is a huge pool of resources available to "quitters".  I have used them all, even down to a counselor that I got by calling 1-800-nobutts.  Again, I wish you well.
191774
Yes smoking is STILL bad for you. Cigaretttes have so many different poisions in them that any of the smoke can effect you outside the lungs as inside.   DON'T start if you haven't, it's so hard to quit.  It's actually harder to quit then Heroine.  The smoke alone in your mouth can cause CANCER (my dad died of age 46), and anyone around you will be affected.  Yes, even if you do NOT inhale, it IS HARMFUL.
937935
I'm not sure of the addiction probability, but I read that hooka is worse for you than cigarettes.  Sorry, I can't remember the source other than that it was a respected magazine.
992843
You can try this , cut back but be serious about it. if you smoke a pack go to half until you are use to it. then cut that in half again. do this until you can get to 1 cigarette a day and keep that routine for a year. Now , when you do one a day, you will have stressful days where more than one will seem needed. It's okay to smoke another as long as the next day you go back to just ONE! after a year of one a day, then go to one day off a week without any smoke. after that is easy for you , you are ready to try more days off, until you are without the craving. it's not the nicotine as many think , it's the actual act of smoking that stick that is hard to kick. you need to rehab yourself and time helps. you'll feel much better once your all through, and your skin and hair will show the improvement. God bless.
401419
F*uck man - so long as you use responsibly, its no problem.  Smoke on Friday and Saturday nights, then leave it alone - you'll be fine
63326
they're both bad second hand smoke is worse because most people who are inhaling the second hand smoke aren't ususally smokers, so it affects them more. I recently read a dear abby letter that addressed this question. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ucda/20060126/lf_ucda/dangerposedbysecondhandsmokeiscalledintoquestion;_ylt=AvRvjRtt.OVVBMI5k8l73bnNbbUC;_ylu=X3oDMTBjMHVqMTQ4BHNlYwN5bnN1YmNhdA--
214196
Cigarettes are harmful perious regardless of age.
20610
Most certainly smokers die from their own smoke more often.
1067893
how bout take it slow... instead of 3 cigs a day smoke 2 then 1 then eventually one a week then one a month and then never. chew gum instead. how bout start tomorrow. theres no price on life.
912152
Smoking is bad for your health - period.
626311
Well, I could say to start with all of the problems that arise from the use of either.   MADD ( Mother's Against Drunk Driving) is also a gret place to get information on alcahol abuse.  As for tobacco, can you spell CANCER!  Not to mention the scaring to the throat of the smoker and you have heard of 2nd hand smoke!  This will be an easy subject to create speeches on.  The youth of today is the hope of all our tomorrows,  Sadly many are influenced by the temptation of one or both of these.  Society as a whole is realizing the bad effect that tobacco has on us and currently there are fewer and fewer places on can smoke in public.  These vices can damage brain cells and have killed many.  Use the satistics to prove that statement.  Best of luck.....
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Secondhand smoke contains twice as much tar and nicotine per unit volume as does smoke inhaled from a cigarette. It contains 3X as much cancer-causing benzpyrene, 5X as much carbon monoxide, and 50X as much ammonia. Secondhand smoke from pipes and cigars is equally as harmful, if not more so.\n\nSecond hand smoke is a toxic cocktail consisting of poisons and carcinogens. There are over 4000 chemical compounds in second hand smoke; 200 of which are known to be poisonous, and upwards of 60 have been identified as carcinogens.\n\nWhen a cigarette is smoked, about half of the smoke is inhaled / exhaled (mainstream smoke) by the smoker and the other half floats around in the air(sidestream smoke).\n\n No one should be forced to breathe in air tainted with cigarette smoke.
158897
that is very relative. I know a person who's lived for over 90 years smoking 2 packs of "PielRoja" ("redskin", unfiltered cheap colombian ciggies) since age 24. and there's plenty of factors: if you don't have the precise protooncogene, you could never develop cancer even smoking 2 packs a day. \n\nthen again, people can live with an emphysema for long, stuck to an o2 tank all their lives. you could develop Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (I think this is the exact translation), live with an annoying bronchitis for decades. ruin your skin and teeth and get to age 80 looking like shit.\n\nwhat's the point? it's not a matter of quantity of life but quality of life.\n\nanyway, from an unorthodox point of view (having discussed this with a few teachers of mine), they'd say a ciggie a day is no big deal (but if you have the protooncogene I won't be responsible).
763354
It depends on the number of pack years the person has been smoking. A pack year is defined as an entire year in which a person  smokes a pack of cigarettes per day. For example, a person who smokes a pack per day for two years has two pack years of smoking history. This is equal to a person who smokes half a pack for four years; and to one who smokes two packs per day for a year. Generally, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD: chronic bronchitis and emphysema), which is the more common cause of death in smokers occurs at around 20 pack years.\n\nTo compute for your current pack year, divide the number of sticks you smoke in a day by 20. Then multiply this by the number of years you have been smoking. Example, if I have been smoking for 10 years averaging 15 sticks per day, that's (15sticks/20sticks)x10years = 7.5 pack years.
982234
The smoke from the wood is many times more carcinogenic than tobacco
196248
Drinking doesn't directly cause harm to anyone else. True, over indulgence can cause people to make irrational decisions which can be harmful or even deadly, but smoking is ALWAYS dangerous. I have had breathing issues since I was a baby and being around cigarette smoke greatly aggravates that. It's not fair for other peoples health to be constantly compromised because of other's addictions.
795323
no. anything you smoke is bad for you. i would recommend quiting.