snip....You only live once. If cigars are something you enjoy and makes you happy, you should indulge, because simple pleasures like this are becoming few and far between these days.
I wish I had said that.
Two thumbs up!!!!!!
snip....You only live once. If cigars are something you enjoy and makes you happy, you should indulge, because simple pleasures like this are becoming few and far between these days.
Ohh! They've opened a cuban cigar recycling and disposal plant in Tennessee? I had no idea! What a useful service! Does the plant prefer to get the cigars disposed at the same time as a glass of good old bourbon or does the plant's policy give preference to a gin & tonic disposal?
Dana Reeve, Christopher Reeve's wife died of lung cancer yet she never smoked. I was diagnosed almost 3 years ago with bladder cancer which is linked to tobacco usage. I smoke at most 2-3 cigars a month. Sometimes none for several weeks. I had smoked cigarettes yet had quit in 1980. I think cancer is a bit of a crapshoot.
As grandma once said; "Everything in moderation".
The medical establishment is pretty much in agreement that if you avoid tobacco, moderate your alcohol intake, get a certain level of exercise and stay out of the obese range, plus reduce your intake of red meat and increase your intake of whole grains and fruits/veggies, then you will most likely reduce your chances of a premature involvement with the health care system. You're greatly reducing your chances of contracting a number of cancers, cardiac problems and diabetes.
If you smoke, you greatly increase your chances of developing a number of (duh) smoking-related illnesses.
This, however, is too broad a statement. In my case, it's actually quite false. Your statement is true of smoking many cigarettes a day, only. For pipes and cigars, which one doesn't inhale and tends to smoke less frequently (once or twice a day or even less), the data is far less certain. For people who smoke cigarettes even, but not much, the data is less certain.
In fact, it's hard to find reliable research on anything other than chain-smoking cigarettes.
That is excellent and interesting. Is it available somewhere online? I'd love to be able to reference it in a more formal way than this post...