is smoking a cigar is just as bad as smoking cigerettes(health wise i mean)?
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No, cigars are not as bad for your health as cigarettes, as long as you smoke them the correct way and smoke in moderation.\n\nThe tobacco used to make cigars is very different from the tobacco used to make cigarettes.  Cigar tobacco has less nicotine to begin with. Add to that the fact that no nicotine is added to cigars to "enhance" them, and a cigar, even though it is bigger than a cigarette, contains less nicotine for its size than a comparable cigarette would.  It is not common to find a cigar smoker who "has to have" a cigar.\n\nCigars are smoked differently as well.  You cannot "chain smoke" cigars.  Most cigar smokers smoke one, or at most two cigars a day.  Many cigar smokers only smoke one or two a week.  Again, part of that has to do with the lower nicotine content of cigar tobacco.  Part of it has to do with the fact that cigar smoke is never, never inhaled if you are smoking correctly.\n\nA cigar is "sipped" -- the smoke is taken into the mouth and then then exhaled out.  It is never drawn into the lungs (except by someone who does not know how to smoke a cigar).  A cigar is also smoked slowly, over thirty minutes to an hour or more depending on the size of the cigar.  This slower smoking keeps the smoke cooler, and lowers the amount of tar in the smoke as well.  \n\nFor all of these reasons, cigars are much less harmful when smoked properly, and smoked in moderation, than cigarettes.  There have been numerous research studies since the 1960's that have shown that moderate, correct cigar smoking has about the same effect on your health as daily commuting in your car in city traffic with the windows closed -- the air pollution, ozone, etc. that enters your body is about the same in both cases.\n\nThere was even one study, cited at the website in the Sources for this answer, that showed that Cigar smokers have a *lower* risk of cancer than non-smokers.  Don't get too wound up about that though, since the difference wasn't really statistically significant.  What the study really found was that there was basically no effect on your health from smoking cigars (properly, without inhaling smoke into the lungs) until someone smoked between 5 and 7 cigars a day.\n\nI know a lot of cigar smokers, and I smoke cigars myself.  I don't know anyone who smokes 5 to 7 cigars a day.  I don't smoke that many a week.\n\nSo, the answer to your question based on scientific and medical studies over the past thirty years is, "No."  Smoking a cigar is not as bad for your health as smoking cigarettes.
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Nicotine itself does not cause cancer. It is all the other stuff in the cigarrettes that cause it.
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Let's straiten this out.  Second hand smoke is only harmful to people who for a lifetime are stuck in a home with a smoker.  You getting a whiff of somebody else's smoke from the sidewalk is not going to kill you.  Exhaust from all the cars we drive and radon and CO2 will kill you way before cigarette smoke will.
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That's a very low risk, I would say (cutting out the cigars would help) but a lot of this is genetic - some people drink and smoke all their lives and never get cancer and some people eat organic food, never drink, never smoke and get cancer.  It's the way it is.  However, you'll be less likely to get cancer if you live a healthy lifestyle.
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It's just like ciggarette smoke more harmful breathe in than the person who is smoking it.Just stay away from any kind of smoke.
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Not if you are trying to quit.  Think of all the negative side effects of cigarets.
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Menthol Cigarettes are more harmful because the menthol soothes the throat so that you can inhale the toxins deeper into your lungs than you can with regular cigarettes. It can result in more scarring and damage to your lungs.\n\nIf you are not thinking about quitting and absolutely have to smoke, it is best if you don't smoke menthols, but there is no such thing as a safe cigarette.
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eeeeeeew!!!! smoking is the worst thing...i'm sure many girls hate it (but one of my friends think it's appealing---can't understand what's up with her). smoking is really bad for you and you'll get bad teeth, lung cancer, etc. don't do it for an image...don't do it all. Everytime i'm near someone or i walk past someone smoking and i get secondhand smoke (yuck!) i turn to my friends and we joke saying we just lost 11 seconds of our lives.
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Actually, it is better for you. It is all natural so it isn't going to put nicotine and all that other crap in your body. It also helps you relax. It basically has the same effects as alcohol except for you don't become violent.
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Alcochol and cigarettes are both pretty bad, I've had family & friends die from both of those.....but no "marijuana" related deaths....go figure....the legal ones kill.....
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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.
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I don't have much experience with Hooka Tabacy but having quit smoking I can say that NOTHING you smoke is good for you. Smoking anything can lead you back to cigarettes again. Stay away from it.
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There are no safe cigarettes.  Some are lower in tar than others, but tar isn't the only bad thing for you in a cigarette.  They'll all kill you sooner or later.
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It doesn't really matter. All smoking is very hazardous and will lead to a shorter and less healthy life. If you're going to smoke anything, smoke pot. At least you will die laughing.
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The EPA has done study upon study on second hand smoke and the only thing they can definitely say is that it makes your hair and clothes smell bad.  The fact is: ciggarette smoke is a carcinogen which falls under the "one hit theory".  That means one exposure can lead to cancer, or a billion exposures lead to cancer.  It effects everyone differently.  You hear about 90 year smokers living til 110, or someone dying from lung cancer at the age of 30 who has never had a smoke.  Second hand smoke is awful, because it makes people smell bad and just isn't fun to be around, but it has not proven to be harmful.
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Second hand smoke is a known carcinogen.  It is also known to have other effects (increased risk of asthama, reduced immune system, etc.).  And it stinks.\n\nThat said, it is not a higher risk than smoking.  Still, I would try and find a way to deal with it.
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There's no doubt that smoking is not good for you but....\nI would be more concerned about the air you breathe daily!\nI would be more concerned about what we eat!laboratory experiments show that pigs can indeed be infected by Mad Cow brains--and hundreds of thousands of downer pigs, too sick or crippled by injury to even walk, arrive at U.S. slaughterhouses every year.This article also includes info on other meat sources as well! A good read and "food" for thought No pun intended!\nDid you know that the average person takes over 20,000 breaths a day.We spend our entire day breathing in and out and yet, most of the time, we don’t even think about it.  We’re not aware of a function which is vital for sustaining life.  \nOf the air cancer risk calculated by EDF for the U.S. as a whole, 60 percent is from mobile sources and 26 percent from small business 'area; sources, with the remaining 14 percent from industrial 'point' sources.Wouldn't cigarettes be considered an air cancer risk since we breathe in the smoke?\nMore people die each year in the United States from medical errors than from highway accidents, breast cancer or AIDS, \n\nSo you see it doesn't really matter where you live,how much money you have,or what you do to earn a living,we all breathe the same air and buy our food from the same food chain,From the minute you are born,you begin to die,so don't take life too seriously,you're not going to come out of it alive,and a hundred years from now,nobody's going to give a rats behind about you any ways!so chill,don't worry be happy! and smile!