Brad Rodu talks about health and cigars

[stubby2]

http://rodutobaccotruth.blogspot.com...r-smoking.html

Cigarette smoking causes “preventable illness and premature death,” as U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher noted in 1999, but other tobacco products, including smokeless tobacco, cigars and pipes, have far fewer health risks. Consumers should know the facts, weigh the implications, and make reasoned choices.

Note much to add. If you keep your use to a moderate level and don't inhale the risk is fairly low.

[Ansel]

It's weird, with cigars i have to take them down deep (though not to my lungs) to get a nic hit. But with pipes (depending on the tobacco) i can stream the smoke out my nose which gives me a lovely relaxing nic hit. So for me and for my throats sake i think pipes are preferable to cigars.

[Frosted]

This is giving me a desire for a cigar. I don't inhale, if I ever have one, and find that there's a similar but slightly stronger uptake of nicotine through the mouth as sterk snus.
With the pipe I found that no matter how I tried, I could not stop inhaling the smoke and ended up with smokers cough. Doesn't happen with cigars but the temptation to inhale is very strong.

[Skell18]

This is giving me a desire for a cigar. I don't inhale, if I ever have one, and find that there's a similar but slightly stronger uptake of nicotine through the mouth as sterk snus.
With the pipe I found that no matter how I tried, I could not stop inhaling the smoke and ended up with smokers cough. Doesn't happen with cigars but the temptation to inhale is very strong.

Throwback to smoking, I used to catch myself doing it when I smoke my pipe, when I stopped smoking I stopped trying to inhale. Cigars have never done anything for me other than making me want a cigarette straight after.

[Ansel]

I just blew some money on a months worth of cigars. They weren't doing anything for me so i sold them on. I get more pleasure from a pipe. But pipe smoking can be a PITA.