Putting That In My Pipe And Smoking It?

[Ziggamafu]

[quote name='Aloysius' post='1816924' date='Mar 26 2009, 10:52 AM']that study on hookah smoking is extremely misleading. This is the only study to date to look at the issue of hookah and cancer issues:

[url="http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/5/1/19"]http://www.harmreductionjournal.com/content/5/1/19[/url]





'getting the same amount of smoke' doesn't mean getting the same problems. no tar is added to the shisha, and tar levels are very low due to the way the shisha is heated rather than directly burned and how it is filtered through water. the amount of smoke may be comparable, but the type of smoke is significantly different, and this study showed much less problems.

as regards pipe and cigar smoking: again, show me a study which singles out [b]moderate[/b] pipe and/or cigar smoking of [b]non-inhalers[/b]. but anyway, yes, I recognize that there are health risks mainly for the mouth, including teeth; I have some special tobacco-geared mouth wash (claims to remove tar from teeth) myself and only smoke moderately... and then again, there seem to be no studies I know of about herbal smoke from pipes (which is the real topic of this thread)[/quote]


I enjoy fine cigars about twice a month, usually two per setting. I could be wrong - I've never done the research - but it seems to me that puffing on a cigar (absolutely no cigar enthusiast would dream of inhaling) could not be much worse than the consumption of a flame-grilled steak. I am also under the impression that, while the prevalence of smoking in society has decreased over the past century, the prevalence of cancer has increased. This leads me to believe that there are other, more serious contributions to the degradation of health. I don't think that cigar / pipe puffing is nearly as bad as it is made out to be...but again, I've never done hard research on the topic.

Edit: Also, I'm with Al in questioning whether or not the studies of cigar smoke in comparison to cigarettes bother to consider the fact that cigarettes are inhaled while cigars are merely puffed; I suppose what I'm getting at is the question of how bad - [b][i][u]in comparison to[/u] other more frequent exposures to carcinogens[/i][/b] - the smoke is for the mouth, in moderation?

Edited March 26, 2009 by Ziggamafu

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Well, this is all new to me.