Southern Planter
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I love cigars, but smoke very few of them. Now that I'm growing my own I was ticked to find this about health concerns for those of use who smoke fewer than 15 stogies a month.
From Wikipedia:
Here are the references, if I can do it right.
From Wikipedia:
However, for those who don't inhale and smoke 1–2 cigars per day, the risk of dying from all causes is statistically insignificant when compared to non-smokers and greatly reduced compared to heavy cigar smokers.
Here are the references, if I can do it right.
- ^ Jump up to:[SUP]a[/SUP] [SUP]b[/SUP] Shanks TG, Burns DM (1998). "Disease consequences of cigar smoking" (PDF). In Shopland DR, Burns DM, Hoffman D, Cummings KM, Amacher RH (eds.). Cigars: Health Effects and Trends. Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph No. 9. National Cancer Institute. pp. 105–160. Retrieved 2008-10-21.
- ^ Jump up to:[SUP]a[/SUP] [SUP]b[/SUP] [SUP]c[/SUP] Burns DM (1998). "Cigar smoking: overview and current state of the science" (PDF). In Shopland DR, Burns DM, Hoffman D, Cummings KM, Amacher RH (eds.). Cigars: Health Effects and Trends. Smoking and Tobacco Control Monograph No. 9. National Cancer Institute. p. 8. Retrieved 2012-02-23.