Please read the original, unbiased, Surgeon General's report on smoking and cancer. It concludes that pipe smokers have a
lower mortality rate than non-smokers and that cigar smokers have virtually the
same mortality rate as non-smokers. It's the cigarettes that get you. Well, the crap they add to cigarettes will.
Also, this:
http://web.archive.org/web/200211282...08/wtob08.html