Posted on 04/19/2022 4:32:38 AM PDT by Pontiac
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I personally need to do more research on fine cigars and good scotch. Can I get a grant?
As long as they leave pot alone. Because that’s basically health food for your brain and lungs. I had a lot more to say but I forgot.
... and besides, you suddenly got the munchies
Meanwhile Deep State is legalizing and normalizing weed.
None of this is about public health.
As an occasional cigar smoker, I’ve had these discussions with doctors. My personal physician waves off the risks of cigar smoking compared to cigarettes mostly because cigar smoke is not inhaled by the user. I know a very small handful of die hards who inhale, but having accidentally taken in a small bit of cigar smoke, it’s incredibly harsh. I’ve never touched a cigarette in my life but I know the chemicals they use to quick cure the tobacco and put in the papers are far more dangerous than a natural tobacco wrapper.
That said, I am trying to quit due to the effects on my stomach. To each their own, I suppose.
“More Research Needed on Use of Premium Cigars, Report Finds”
I guess that means they haven’t gotten around to interviewing Bill Clinton yet.
“My personal physician waves off the risks of cigar smoking compared to cigarettes mostly because cigar smoke is not inhaled by the user.”
That’s why it’s called puffing on a cigar.
50 year cigar smoker here. Premium cigars can be some of the worse. New cigar smokers love to spend money. But, as the article states, not much data on the subject, just a passionate group of people that ain’t talking.
Of course cigar smoking — or smoking in general — is harmful. Even Rush knew the dangers.
But as we should be a free society, we should be free to make the choice of our own levels of risk…
Nothing to fear there. Narcotics is the life's blood of the democratic party.. Soon everything will be legalized, and every kid in town will be a hothead...
But smoking marijuana is ok......
Marijuana, by the way it is inhaled and held in the lungs, is far worse than cigars and cigarettes could ever be.
There is no set definition of “premium cigar.” It could be he carefully controlled hand creation or it could be a company’s most expensive cigar wrapped in individual tubes and wooden boxes and made of floor sweepings. It is a silly project.
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If somebody can get a grant to study shrimp on treadmills I don’t see why you couldn’t get a grant.
But you would need to come up with a plausible thing about cigar smoking.
Maybe how much saliva is generated by cigar smoking.
You could get a bunch of smokers together with a bunch of spittoons, smoke, drink and the next day quantify how much spit was generated.
Just have to write it up.
I am an occasional cigar smoker. I only smoke them outside when the weather is cool. Here in Texas, that means the season is pretty much over for the next 6 months (though I may be able to smoke a final one today; it is surprisingly cool and dry). Since I smoke so few these days, I get brands I trust, like CAO, Alec Bradley, Drew Estate, etc.
The bad thing for cigars is that they are still considered a luxury only affordable to the rich.
Sure the very best cigars are unaffordable to most people but that is true of most anything.
Single hand rolled cigars are still available for under $5. And most people only smoke at most 1 or 2 a day.
That puts cigars in the same price range a cigarettes in many states.
But perception is reality and cigars are a rich man’s vice.
Also notice that flavored cigars are the target of choice because it is the primary choice of the young/new cigar smoker today. And protecting the young is always their wedge when they are breaking in to a new area of regulation.
I still have cigars from 28 years ago. I have the AF 8-5-8’s that I bought when my son was born. He is 26. But I don’t smoke them anymore.
I don’t smoke, but as an innocent bystander, I consider any cigar whose odor doesn’t make me recoil in disgust is a premium cigar. Most of them are not offensive at all.
Cheap cigars (e.g. “guinea stinkers”) are the opposite.
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