Are cigars a safer alternative to cigarettes?
Cigars, just like cigarettes, contain nicotine and nicotine is highly addictive. Cigar smoke, like cigarette smoke, contains toxic chemicals including carbon monoxide, benzene, formaldehyde and hydrogen cyanide, which are created when tobacco burns. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, regular cigar smoking causes cancer of the lung, oral cavity, larynx, esophagus and probably cancer of the pancreas. Therefore, when a cigar is smoked, it can be expected to have many of the harmful effects as smoking cigarettes does.
