What is the difference between the tobacco inside of cigars/cigarillos and cigarettes? Why do they cause cancers at different frequencies?
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There’s no huge difference, though cigars are more expensive and use better-tasting tobacco.
They only cause cancers at different rates because people don’t smoke cigars as much as they smoke cigarettes, and because most cigar smokers don’t inhale the smoke, they just let it sit in their mouth and then blow it out. Inhaling is worse for your lungs, though even without inhaling they are still bad for you.
If someone smoked 5 cigars a day the way someone might smoke 20 cigarettes a day, they’d have pretty equal cancer rates. But people don’t tend to smoke cigars nearly that often. My dad likes cigars and he smokes a cigar maybe once a month.
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