How can smoking cigars damage your lungs if you don’t inhale the smoke?

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How can smoking cigars damage your lungs if you don’t inhale the smoke?

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Answer 1

It is a myth that when you smoke a cigar you don’t inhaled it smoke. The goal is not to inhale the smoke, but people still inhale some smoke.

You may try not to inhale the smoke, but regardless of your best efforts you’re still going to inhale some of it.

Even if you could actually perfectly exhale all the smoke every time out of both your nose and mouth before you inhale again, the air around you is still going to be filled with some level of smoke.

The really simple answer is there’s no such thing as not inhaling the smoke.