Are cigars or a pipe less dangerous than cigarettes?
Pipe tobacco, like cigar tobacco, produces an acrid smoke that is difficult to inhale, but less acidic; this means that it passes into the bloodstream more easily. Whether a smoker prefers cigars to cigarettes is only really of importance if he doesnt inhale the smoke, but this is rarely the case if he was accustomed to doing so with cigarettes. If the smoker does inhale, the cigar is more toxic, in particular because of the very high carbon monoxide content in cigar smoke.
