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Sure, there are risks when you smoke anything in any way. Its the style in which you do it that determines the risks - I read a study a while back compairing the number of people who got cancer (and the different types they got) from smoking cigars/pipes vs cigarettes, the study found that smoking cigars/pipes increases risk of oral cancer slightly but is still signifigantly lower than cigarettes. The same was found about lung cancer ( I think the numbers were 70ish% for cigarettes and 5% for cigars/pipes. )
The way Ive always looked at it was that people smoke cigarettes for a fix of some sort (when they wanted/needed it) - people smoke cigars and pipes to taiste and to relax on occasion.
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