I'm just wondering if anyone has actually gotten cancer from smoking cigars? I hear about people getting cancer from cigarettes. And whats the trick not not getting cancer I guess everything these days "causes cancer"? 
Has anyone gotten cancer from smoking?
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I can't site any direct cases, and am too lazy to look fr them. BUt
I have heard cigars have been the cause for several cases of mouth, lip and check cancers. I believe these were the types to hold a cigar in their mouth all day, lit or not.
I have heard cigars have been the cause for several cases of mouth, lip and check cancers. I believe these were the types to hold a cigar in their mouth all day, lit or not.
Lung cancer is probably highest risk for cigar smokers. Even though we don't inhale some smoke still will find its ways into your lung. And that is were the most nicotine is absorbed. 2nd most would probably be in your stomach from your saliva. The mouth and throat typically do not absorb much.
I know there is debate over the validity of some of these claims, but this is what the National Cancer Institute has to say about it: http://www.cancer.gov/cancertopics/factsheet/Tobacco/cigars
Just Google "cigars cancer" and you'll find enough links to keep you reading for quite a while. Then you can come back here and tell us what you found out!
Just Google "cigars cancer" and you'll find enough links to keep you reading for quite a while. Then you can come back here and tell us what you found out!
Nicotine does not cause cancer so the only way you're really going to get lung cancer from cigars is IF you are a repeated inhaler or you are breathing in second hand smoke all day long. Most cigar lounges have pretty good vent systems so second hand smoke isn't a HUGE issue but I personally wouldn't want to sit there for more than 4-6hrs. I think the biggest cancer available to you is mouth, gums, tongue and maybe even some throat, like deprice said.
I'm curious where you got that from, as that's the opposite of what I've read and what I understand of human anatomy. The fact that the membranes in the mouth are so thin, is the very reason there are medications designed to be absorbed directly to your blood stream sublingually.
I have heard before that cocaine will still make your mouth numb if you rub it on your gums. That's what I heard anyway.
hdroadglide
BoM x 2, BoY 2011
i think he heard that it doesn't taste very good, but it smells Wonderful!
I'm sure someone has gotten cancer from cigars and fruit and vegetables and air pollution and sweeteners and meat and bug spray and cell phones and xrays and the sun and... need I go on? We are all doomed...
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Yeah unless you are like Sigmund Freud and are never seen without a cigar in your mouth I think you are OK. The only place I'm allowed to smoke is outside anyway. Glad I live in Cali where smoking outside is not a problem. I have known a few people who got cancer but only one of them smoked nothing but cigars. The rest all dipped or smoked cowboy killers along with stogies. It's strange but I remember two of my uncles who smoked since the age of nine(so I'm told) and lived well into their 90s. Then you read about cocktail waitresses getting it from second hand smoke.
I spent an entire weekend researching this about a year ago, after getting an earful from my wife about the evils of tobacco. (We both used to smoke cigarettes; she's one of "those" ex-smokers.) Anyway, the consensus is that smoking one cigar a day (or less) does not increase the chances of getting (or the severity of) smoking-related illnesses (including cancer). When I switched doctors about six months ago, my new doctor asked me if I smoked. I told him that I enjoy a couple of cigars a week, maybe 10 a month at the most. He said (quoting, here), "Pshht. That doesn't count."
George Burns smoked a dozen cigars a day for 70 years. Jim Fixx dropped dead from a heart attack at the age of 52 after his morning jog.
Even I can do that math.
George Burns smoked a dozen cigars a day for 70 years. Jim Fixx dropped dead from a heart attack at the age of 52 after his morning jog.
Even I can do that math.
Lol! He was definitely orally fixated.:chat: