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Originally Posted by mr sticky
Also, if you are considering a relatively safe alternative to cigarette smoking, you may want to look at pipe smoking.
"Death rates for current pipe smokers are little if at all higher than for nonsmokers, even with men smoking 10 pipefuls per day and with men who had smoked pipes for more than thirty years." "Pipe Smokers who inhale live just as long as nonsmokers. Pipe smokers who don't inhale live longer than nonsmokers." (Death rate 20% less than for nonsmokers)"
SURGEON GENERALS REPORT
Public Health Service, Publication No. 1103, Page Nos. 92 & 112
Now, this was off a pipe website but I've seen similar information in a small number of health journal articles that think to include pipes.
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Being a pipe smoker I felt the need to check this out, and strangely, the actual report is quoted CORRECTLY- it then goes on to say that they are uncertain about the cause for this puzzling outcome- note however, that I am skeptical as the report dates from 1964, and there are other reports and studdies that show a higher mortality rate from pipe smokers- sorry for being off topic a bit, but it has provoked me to start digging for info......
Back now- and after an extensive search, the quote is right, but later studdies (about 40 years of them) show the conclusion reached by the smoking website you quote to be pure horseshit - in fact you get a much higher incidence of throat and mouth cancer, and an elevated risk over the general public of lung cancer (pipe second hand smoke may be worse than cig seconhand, and the smoker is exposed even if he does not inhale)- so in fact it is easier on the lungs, just as the average cigar smoke is, but worse on the mouth and throat- tracheotomies anyone?