cigar and pipe smoking

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• - Cigar smoking has become trendy in the past few years, but no warning has been placed on the labels to show the health risks involved. They can involve head and neck cancers rather than lung cancer. Collection of articles outlines the effects and propose
  
• - Information from the American Cancer Society on cigar trends, constituents of cigar smoke, cancer disease and deaths caused by cigars, other health effects of cigars, and secondhand cigar smoke.
  
• - Summary of recent scientific findings concludes cigars are not a safe alternative to cigarettes, and that both cause addiction, cancer, and secondhand smoke.
  
• - Collection of articles on the industry promotion of the product, and the effects of the product on the customer.
  
• - An MD examines the risks and benefits of pipe smoking in terms of health and well being.
  
• - Since cigars don't have the warnings, taxes, ad restrictions of cigarettes, a customer could get the idea they're a safe alternative; this item summarizes the research showing why they're not.
  
• - Summary of study published in the International Journal of Epidemiology, October 2003, which found that the health risks of cigar or pipe smoking, from cancer to heart disease, are as great as those of relatively light cigarette smoking.
  
• - Article examines promotion and marketing of cigars, and briefly lists their health effects.
  
• - Summary of research reported in the The New England Journal of Medicine in June 1999.
  
• - Recent research shows that cigars and pipe smoking have nearly the same adverse effects on periodontal health and tooth loss as cigarette smoking.
  
• - Academy of General Dentistry provides information on effects of cigars.
  
• - Scientific paper estimates the effects of cigars; covers the death caused, not disease.
  
• - Information from the National Cancer Institute discusses health risks, effects of inhalation, relationship to addiction, benefits of quitting, and trends.
  
• - Fully footnoted factsheets on use and effects.
  
• - Summary of June 1999 article in the New England Journal of Medicine covers what cigars do to the heart, lungs, and throat.
  
• - AMA report summarizes findings from a scientific conference, including cigars cause nicotine addiction and lung cancer.