Contains no explosives?
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.
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.
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…
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.
The intricacies of their classifications of “premium” and their analysis indicate they will not be able to tease out stone hard scientific knowledge for a long time. Very surprised that they accepted the term “harsher” without defining what that actually means. At what level does hot products of combustion of vegetable matter become “harsh”?
My family raised tobacco for generations and was sought out by many for their skills. Dad took the buyout when he observed the anti smoking sentiment rising. Up until that time we had always grown at least 15 acres at home and more on several other farms.
Tobacco is or was, the most expensive and profitable crop oweing to the fertilizer, chemical and labor investment necessary to produce it. Usually, we over produced and the excess had to be trucked to Kentucky to sell.
Anyway, I need time to examine premium cigars in depth. I may have to start with a Rocky Patel 1999 Churchill or perhaps an Oliva Nub 460 Connecticut with a wee nip or two of good whisky.
This may also be a good time to bring up Rudyard Kipling’s poem “The Betrothed” because I was just rereading “Barrack-Room Ballads” yesterday.
“do premium cigars affect people’s health differently than other cigars”
yes: it costs more money to get cancer and heart disease from “premium” cigars than non-premium cigars ...