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Cigars & A Long Life?
This is worth sharing..
I was giving a employee a ride home a couple evenings ago. She has been with the company several years and her daughter used to work with us as well.Mom was born in Argentina. As we were driving her home I was smoking a cigar.Everyone that works for me knows that I smoke. What was interesting is, she told me her Mom smoked cigars every day until she died. When I asked Justina how old she was when she passed,she said "my Mother lived to be 105 years old" in her cute Latin accent. I just had to smile 
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04-01-2010, 04:52 PM
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Re: Cigars & A Long Life?
Good story.
I wonder if there's a study that looked at life spans of cigar smokers? My hunch is they live as long as non-smokers, but these studies have whatever outcome the authors want.
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04-01-2010, 04:53 PM
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105....
George Burns lived to be 100... Winston Churchill to 90... Groucho Marx to 86... Yup. That's all the proof I need! 
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04-01-2010, 05:06 PM
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Re: Cigars & A Long Life?
Dad has been having one a day ever since he was 14.
He is 74 now.
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04-01-2010, 05:34 PM
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04-01-2010, 05:36 PM
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04-01-2010, 05:12 PM
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I figure the percentage chance of early death from some malady caused by cigar smoking is far outweighed by the percentage chance of not having a stroke thanks to the relaxation cigars bring to my life.
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He quit years ago.
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04-01-2010, 09:43 PM
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04-02-2010, 07:10 AM
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This is where I fall in my belief of things. I know that there is an element of risk in being a cigar smoker, however, I feel that the benefits of the relaxation and connection to my fellow smokers at a herf FAR outweigh those risks. As far as health goes, I went in to the doc yesterday to help me deal with a cough/sinus infection and had my bp and heart rate taken. BP was 110/70, and the nurse said I had "the blood pressure of a teenager" (I'm 36). My resting heart rate was 58. As many of you know, I work out, and started running triathlons last year, but if smoking was so bad for me, wouldn't those numbers be higher/worse? And another thought I have on this subject...think about this...aren't cigars viewed as a vice for the more affluent? As those smoking cigars would be considered more affluent, wouldn't it be considered true that they have access to better medical care, and would be able to get other issues taken care of? Then secondary health problems caused by cigar smoking would be mitigated and minimized. Just my 
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04-01-2010, 05:48 PM
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I look at it like this-my dad passed before he turned 61 and he wasn't much of a cigarette smoker period, but after the cancer pretty much ran its course, what else did he have to lose by picking it up?
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04-01-2010, 05:51 PM
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Great story Dave! Thanks!
Didn't Frank LLenza recently pass? And he was 90.
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04-01-2010, 06:14 PM
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I've seen some pictures of some cigar company owners, and some of them are pretty old. And I'm sure they smoke quite a bit.
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