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

[irratebass]

Interesting topic that I haven't seen discussed a lot. I had 6 cigars this past Saturday (which is a lot, and I was feeling the effects and even ruined my palette that I couldn't taste a rare cigar my boss threw at me) one of the regulars in the shop is a Doctor, he is the one who tells the family that their loved one is not going to make it or that have already passed (rough job if ya ask me), anyway we were talking and he asked me how many I had that day when I told him his eyes got big and he said that 1 cigar is like 16 cigs or something like that and he added up I had like 68 cigs that day.

He asked me if I ever got a nic buzz, I told him that I did and I was drinking Coke at the moment, he said he would be more concerned if I didn't get a buzz.

Anyway not sure if it's true or not, but cigars like most of you have said relaxes me and makes me less stressful, and I'm not quitting now.

[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