The ATTACK on premium cigars continues...
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Cigars are just or more dangerous than cigarettes:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/quit-smoking/expert-answers/cigar-smoking/faq-20057787
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I've seen every study out there like.......
http://www.rstreet.org/op-ed/fda-study-cancer-risks-nearly-nil-for-1-2-cigars-per-day/
FDA Study: Cancer risks nearly nil for 1-2 cigars per day
The Food and Drug Administration, which now regulates cigars, has taken the position that “cigar smoking carries many of the same health risks as cigarette smoking.” The agency is requiring cigar packages and ads to display six new warnings, including:
- Cigar smoking can cause cancers of the mouth and throat, even if you do not inhale.
- Cigar smoking can cause lung cancer and heart disease.
- Cigars are not a safe alternative to cigarettes.
However, an FDA staff report shows that smoking up to two cigars a day is associated with minimal significant health risks.
Last year, FDA staff, led by Cindy Chang, published in BMC Public Health a systematic review of the risks of cigar smoking, declaring that their action was “not a formal dissemination of information by the FDA and does not represent agency position or policy.”
The authors reviewed 22 prospective epidemiologic studies on cigars and health outcomes; they produced tables of results for many smoking-related diseases.
This entry will explore results for deaths from all causes and from cancers among men who are primary cigar smokers (no history of cigarette or pipe smoking). Because the 22 studies employed different methods, and because they controlled or adjusted for various factors, the FDA authors did not provide overall summary risk estimates.
First, let’s look at mortality for all causes of death among cigar smokers, compared with never smokers. A relative risk, or RR, of 1 is no risk, and an RR confidence interval that includes 1 is not statistically significant.)
Table 1. Relative Risk Estimates For All-Cause Mortality Among Men Who Smoke Cigars Publication, Year Relative Risk (95% Confidence Interval, CI) Best, 1966 1.06 (0.92 – 1.22) Kahn, 1966 1.10 (1.05 – 1.16) Cole, 1974 1.15 (0.70 – 1.90) Carstensen, 1987 1.39 (1.16 – 1.65) Lange, 1992 1.60 (1.30 – 2.00) Ben-Schlomo, 1994 0.48 (0.25 – 0.93) Shanks, 1998 1.08 (1.05 – 1.12) Table 1 shows that cigar smokers have an elevated risk for death from all causes. With the exception of the Ben-Schlomo study, all of the estimates are elevated, and four are statistically significant. So it appears that there is a modest increase in risk among cigar smokers for all causes of death......CONTINUED IN LINK......
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I've been a cigar smoker for about 50 years, I've done cigar forums on two different boards in the past 20 years so I'm pretty well versed on all things cigar related.
I've read the CIGAR AFICIONADO magazine from issue #2 and on for almost 20 years, it's a great source of information about all things cigar related.
https://www.cigaraficionado.com/
And other sites like http://www.smokemag.com/ https://www.famous-smoke.com/cigaradvisor
As well as other sites for adult pleasures like spirits, wine and beer!
https://www.wineandspiritsmagazine.com/ and http://imbibemagazine.com/
ENJOY BEING AN ADULT!
(and act like one)
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I'll go with the Mayo Clinic over the FDA.
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I'll go with the Mayo Clinic over the FDA.
I'll go with the Mayo Clinic over the FDA.
OK here we go that FDA (who regulates just about everything) is a compilation of 22 studies......did you read it? I have.
You have maybe 1/10th the knowledge on the subject that I have right now, read up and we'll chat.
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Your opinion is biased due to being a 50 year CIGAR AFICIONADO.
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Your opinion is biased due to being a 50 year CIGAR AFICIONADO.
Your opinion is biased due to being a 50 year CIGAR AFICIONADO.
Actually I've been a real cigar aficionado for maybe the last 35-40 years when I became more into fine cigars, when you walk into a smoke shop it looks like there's a zillion cigars to pick from.... so what to get? And the prices vary from moderate to really expensive but your taste might be for more economical smokes IF you know where to start.
I started talking to our local tobaccoist but the real breakthrough for most people was the publication of the CIGAR AFICIONADO magazine which coincidentally happened following the cigar boom in the later 1980s followed by the big cigar bust largely due to uninformed consumers and a glut of BAD cigars to meet the sudden demand. The worldwide output was about 300,000,000 premium cigars which shot to 600,000,000 and back to about the 400,000,000+ but it has steady grown somewhat since.
Another big thing the rise of my old favorite J&R CIGAR and online cigars everywhere! You can buy on the cheap.......if you know what to get sight unseen at home.
Plus I've always been interested in Cuba and their collapsing cigar industry (Castro!) and recent rebound. And on it goes......
Afterall an aficionado is defined as:
1. an ardent devotee; fan, enthusiast.
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OK you made me do some research......
Cigar Aficionado magazine debuted in the fall of 1992, launched in New York City by Marvin R. Shanken, longtime publisher of Wine Spectator magazine. Prior to launching the publication, Shanken engaged in extensive market research, collecting more than 1300 four-page surveys of cigar smokers which detailed their occupation, income, net worth, travel tendencies, as well as their drinking and smoking habits.[2] Survey results revealed a well-heeled and dedicated male demographic, with survey respondents professing an average household income of $194,000 and a net worth of $1.54 million and claiming to smoke on average ten cigars per week.[2] Shanken launched a large-format glossy magazine aimed at corralling these readers and advertisers of products targeted to this audience.
Cigar Aficionado began as a lifestyle magazine, including coverage of wine, spirits, travel, gambling, and antiques, in addition to interviews with leading personalities in the cigar industry and feature articles relating to the cigarmaking industry. From the beginning the magazine emphasized interviews with celebrity cigar smokers, including cover stories on such luminaries as Rush Limbaugh,[3] Bill Cosby,[4] George Burns,[5] Jack Nicholson,[6] and Arnold Schwarzenegger.[7] The new magazine's successful blending of lifestyle reports and celebrity glitz has been credited with contributing to the 1990s cigar boom.[citation needed]
The publication scored its first great journalistic coup on February 4, 1994, when editor and publisher Shanken met Fidel Castroin Havana for a two-hour interview.[8] During this interview Castro recounted the story behind the establishment of the Cohiba brand, told stories of the importance of cigars to his life as a revolutionary in the mountains of Cuba, and explained his decision to give up cigar smoking in August 1986 as part of a national campaign against tobacco use.[8] In addition to these topics of special interest to cigar smokers, the interview touched upon bilateral relations between the United States and Cuba, during the course of which Castro accused the United States of repeatedly "moving the goalposts back" for ending the Cuban economic embargo and said that "no other country has as unblemished behavior about human rights" as Cuba........
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