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Home / Health / Addictions / Substance Abuse / Tobacco / Cigars
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- Cigar Smoking and Cancer - 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.
www.cancer.org/eprise/main/docroot/PED/content/PED_10_2X_Cigar_Smoking_and_Cancer?sitearea=PED
- Cigar Smoking and Cardiovascular Disease, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease, Cancer - Summary of article in the New England Journal of Medicine covers what cigars do to the heart, lungs, and throat.
www.oncolink.com/templates/library/article.cfm?c=2&s=34&id=474
- Cigar Smoking is a Serious Risk to Public Health - Summary of recent scientific findings concludes cigars are not a safe alternative to cigarettes, and that both cause addiction, cancer, and secondhand smoke.
www.cfah.org/hbns/newsrelease/cigar8-8-00.cfm
- Cigars - "Smoking cigars is thought to be safer than cigarettes. Instead of lung cancer, you develop head and neck cancer." Collection of articles outlines the effects.
quitsmoking.about.com/health/quitsmoking/cs/cigars/index.htm
- Cigars and Lung Cancer, Heart Disease, COPD - Summary of research findings. Cigars cause lung cancer, lung disease, COPD, and heart disease.
www.oncolink.com/templates/resources/article.cfm?c=3&s=8&ss=23&id=2309
- Cigars and Tobacco-related Cancers - Scientific paper estimates the effects of cigars; covers the death caused, not disease.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=10675383&dopt=Abstract
- Cigars: An Unsafe Alternative to Cigarettes - 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.
www.heartinfo.com/search/display.asp?Id=609&header=T_know.gif&caller=
- Health Risks Associated With Cigar Smoking - AMA report summarizes findings from a scientific conference, including cigars cause nicotine addiction and lung cancer.
jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v284n6/abs/jsc90323.html
- Leisurely Cigar Puffs Have Hidden Risks - Academy of General Dentistry provides information on effects of cigars.
www.agd.org/consumer/topics/tobacco/cigars.html
- Non Cigar Aficionado Points of View - Collection of articles on the industry promotion of the product, and the effects of the product on the customer.
www.healthwatcher.net/Cigar-nca/nca-main.html
- The Tobacco Reference Guide: Pipes and Cigars - Fully footnoted factsheets on use and effects.
www.globalink.org/tobacco/trg/Chapter18/table_of_contents_chap18.html
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