Are cigars and pipes safer to smoke than cigarettes?
Smoking cigars and pipes is not safe because they contain many of the same harmful ingredients as cigarettes. Cigars can contain as much as 40 times more tar and nicotine than cigarettes. Lung cancer and other tobacco-related causes of death are significantly higher in people who smoke cigars or pipes than in nonsmokers. Carcinogens are found in similar levels in the smoke of all tobacco products. Additionally, pipe and cigar smokers have a higher incidence of oral cancer. Pipe and cigar smokers can be just as addicted to nicotine and require the same interventions.
