Smoking 'causes damage in minutes', US experts claim

[CCIP]

Originally Posted by GoldenRivet

well, i refuse to smoke cigarettes, i find the smell of many brands to be unpleasant.

cigars on the other hand, i will smoke.

however, ask any connoisseur and he will tell you cigars are not to be inhaled only drawn into the mouth, flavored, and expelled. admired for their flavor and aroma rather than some intoxicating effect.

Same goes for me

However it's worth pointing out that while cigars aren't a big risk for lung cancer, they're known to increase chances of mouth cancers.

But hey, as something that you savour only very rarely and in good company, that small risk is well-justified imho. Most cigar smokers are not compulsive and as most things done for taste, it's something that is best done only occasionally.

Smoking Cigarettes is indeed a pretty crappy habit, I've tried cigarettes and personally got no high from them...

Though if offered something similar to a cigarette with a more ... ahem... illegal substance... in it then tobacco I will hit that without a second thought. (Not like you need to smoke that substance to use it however)

[Betonov]

I almost started smoking because the trains were always running late. It was mid january, -10 celcius, I was freezing my butt of waiting for a train that already was 20min late, and next to me some guy smoking a cigarate as cool as he was on a beach somewhere looking at passing ships... and what am I supposed to do, eat pretzels ??

And yes, cigars are a mouth cancer risk, Sigmund Freud died because of it and he was a chain cigar smoker. But alas, I cannot be a chain cigar smoker, I cant afford them

[GoldenRivet]

Originally Posted by Betonov

But alas, I cannot be a chain cigar smoker, I cant afford them

Ditto.

one or two a month perhaps. but several a day or even per week... no way.

EDIT:

I have 8 in my humidor, unless i share with friends, those should last me until mid march if not early April.

[CCIP]

I smoke maybe a half-dozen cigars a year at most, always on vacation with friends when we can just sit down and puff away with a glass of the good stuff, like the classy gentlemen we are

[Gerald]

Everyone knows well that smoking is not the best, the thread was, however, if additional side effects that have a greater impact, as a research proven, but this, did you know already.

[Platapus]

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