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Are there any real risks in cigars?
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QuitBanningMe
Banned
BS. Cigar smoke has the same carcinogens as cigarette smoke.
You are just less likely to get lung cancer and heart disease not inhaling. Still leaves mouth and throat
http://www.smokinglungs.com/cigar.htm
feralkid
Lifer
Some folks see the list of compounds found in tobacco smoke and assume these are from "additives".
While it is true that some chemicals can be added at the factory, ALL of the following occur naturally.
Tar contains over 4,000 chemicals, 37 of which are known to cause cancer!
Other chemicals found in tobacco smoke and common items they can be found in include:
acetone
(finger nail polish
remover)
cadmium
(used in batteries) hexamine
(barbecue lighter)
acetic acid
(vinegar)
carbon monoxide
(car exhaust)
hydrogen cyanide (poison)
ammonia
(toilet cleaner)
carbon monoxide
(car exhaust) methane
(sewer gas)
arsenic
(poison)
DDT/Dieldrin
(used to kill bugs) methanol
(rocket fluid)
butane
(lighter fluid)
ethanol
(alcohol) napthalene
(mothballs)
nicotine
(insecticide)
stearic acid
(candle wax)
toluene
(industrial solvent)
Again, these are products of combustion of tobacco, NOT additives.
BurnItDwn
Lifer
If you are not carefull you could start a fire, and then Smokey the bear would hunt you down.
If you smoke Cigars indoors you could cause the smoke alarm to go off, thus annoying you, also, it makes your place stink.
Also, if you are smoking a cigar when you are driving, your car will smell like cigars.
If you try to bring Cuban cigars inside the country you run some risks of loosing them. (assuming that you are in the USA)
Ohh, one final warning. IMO, the biggest risk; Cigar cutters are big enough to put fingers in. Be carefull!
If you smoke Cigars indoors you could cause the smoke alarm to go off, thus annoying you, also, it makes your place stink.
Also, if you are smoking a cigar when you are driving, your car will smell like cigars.
If you try to bring Cuban cigars inside the country you run some risks of loosing them. (assuming that you are in the USA)
Ohh, one final warning. IMO, the biggest risk; Cigar cutters are big enough to put fingers in. Be carefull!
CorCentral
Banned
The risks are diff. for each person. You might bite the dust early or you may live to 100 like George Burns did. He smoked cigars like they were going out of style most of his life. Granted, he stopped smoking them real late in his life but everytime you saw him, he had one in his hand for show 😉
phantom309
Platinum Member
You CAN'T inhale cigar smoke - it's too strong. You just draw it a little way into your throat and blow it back out. It's for the taste and the slight nicotine buzz you get from absorbing it through the mouth. It's nice if you do it right. If you try to smoke a cigar like you'd smoke a cigarette you'll get sick as hell.
CorCentral
Banned
I learned this the hard way :disgust:
I found one of those thinner type Hava-tampa's or whatever it was. Yep, I inhaled and got sick as hell. Hey, I was only 15. **LOL**
Gibsons
Lifer
Here's a list. Text
My point is that pipes, cigars and chewing tobacco are all known carcinogens. Cigarettes are consumed at a much higher level (both in number of users and probably in useage per person) so the association is more apparent to us. There's also the issue of how they're consumed, as cigarette smoking has the added penalty of exposing the lungs in addition to mouth/throat/esophagus.
Anyway, I'm not prepared to say if cigars or cigarettes are more carcinogenic one way or another, even though I do have some background. It bothers me a bit when peopel say they are certain about such things without providing a rationale or even an argument.
I'm certain that both cigars and cigarettes are carcinogens. I'm fairly confident that differences in their carcinogenic potential is probably more of a product of level and method of exposure to the tobacco born carcinogens, rather than whatever is added by tobacco companies solely to cigarettes - many of the suspected carcinogens are things like insecticides and fertilizer, none of which should be exclusive to cigarettes. There's a brand or two of cigarettes out now that claim to have no additives. I'm willing to bet they're about as carcinogenic as any other brand, when abused properly. Text
Anyway, I'll smoke a cigar now and again, there's no such thing as risk-free behavior in any case.
myusername
Diamond Member
Cigarettes don't usually have "additives" in the way you would think from the media hype. The nicotine, tar, flavor, etc. are manipulated during processing, mostly through environmental factors (i.e. heat, moisture, pressure). I have no doubt that these various processing methods also affect the content of the other smoke components, but it is very unlikely that you would be able to obtain a copy of that information 🙂
"Additive" that should be of concern to smokers is the pesticide that the crop is fumigated with for storage. The same would apply to mass market "hav-a-tampa" type cigars, I expect, but without knowing for certain, I would hazard that premium cigar tobacco is treated in a more caring fashion.
NikPreviousAcct
No Lifer
I am and do the same (every now and then). It's not really a big deal, but I just like having a cigar in my mouth, lit or not.
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