Cigar health issues...do you guys ever worry about it???

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by irratebass

he said that 1 cigar is like 16 cigs or something like that .

16 cigarettes that you don't inhale.

[irratebass]

Originally Posted by icehog3

16 cigarettes that you don't inhale.

Yeah, I just said really and that I didn't know that and let it go at that, but he is a Dr and he does smoke, so I took at face value.

[markem]

I worry about this constantly. In fact, I worry about this so much that I am a nervous wreck. The only thing that seems to calm me down is a cigar.

Seriously, cigar smokers should all realize that smoking cigars has some (most think vanishingly small) affect on health, but so does yelling at the TV during a baseball/basketball/hockey/football/futball game/match.

No one gets out of this life alive, kids, so come to terms with it and live the life you want, not the life others would have for you.

[Porch Dweller]

Originally Posted by icehog3

16 cigarettes that you don't inhale.

This. I once had a dentist try to lecture me about smoking; he was stunned when I told him that you don't inhale cigar smoke.

[FUEL]

Originally Posted by Porch Dweller

This. I once had a dentist try to lecture me about smoking; he was stunned when I told him that you don't inhale cigar smoke.

About 98% of the population...

[emopunker2004]

Originally Posted by FUEL

About 98% of the population...

Yup. My buddy smoked one with me the other night. He usually smokes hookah. He inhaled and coughed something fierce. I said, yeh don't do that

[Weelok]

Originally Posted by emopunker2004

Yup. My buddy smoked one with me the other night. He usually smokes hookah. He inhaled and coughed something fierce. I said, yeh don't do that

Haha!!! My friends that smoke cigarettes don't get cigars at all and a poor Vietamese friend turned green smoking through half a mild cigar before setting it down. I figure he powered through 30 cigarettes in that one setting!!!

[shark]

I think there are a lot of other factors involved regarding this. You can mention Milton Berle, Winston Churchill, George Burns, but then again there were a couple of other famous cigar smokers who died of oral/throat cancer: Sigmund Freud and Babe Ruth. Freud was very fond of his cocaine along with his cigars, and Ruth drank like a fish. Connection? Maybe. In any case, I don't worry much about it.

[emopunker2004]

Originally Posted by icehog3

16 cigarettes that you don't inhale.

Not to mention 16 that are void if all the nasty chemicals added to cigarettes