Cigars are just as bad as cigarettes. In ways, they may be worse, since they are unfiltered. In addition, the tobacco used is much more potent (although I do not have an analysis handy of how the carcinogen levels compare between light tobacco [most cigarettes] and dark tobacco [cigars]). I believe that cigar smokers hold the smoke in their mouths for a longer period of time.
I’ve actually been afraid for a long time that Rush would develop cancer due to his tobacco habit. In fact, every time he would say “in my formerly nicotine stained hands,” I would mentally correct him because he was still just as addicted. So I was saddened but not surprised when he announced his cancer.
No, they aren't.
cigars are not inhaled, there are puffed yes cigars can cause oral cancer, but not lung cancer.
Cigars are not inhaled. Rush was a cigarette smoker. Even then don’t be brain washed into think all lung cancers are a result of smoking. Just as many people who have never smoked get lung cancer.
Actually there has been at least one study that shows that cigar smokers have a longer life-expectancy than non-cigar-smokers.
Like all statistics this one is probably flawed too. The cigar smokers I know are all pretty well off which means, among other things, they (we) probably get better medical care. I belong to a cigar club which has about 200 members (or it did before the Covid nonsense which somewhat curtailed club activities). I don't know for sure but it seems to me that about a third of the members are either doctors or lawyers.
ML/NJ
The largest cohort of lung cancer patients worldwide are Chinese women who cook with oils over hot fires.