Interesting Health Data On Cigar Smokers

[DennisP]

Someone help my dumbass on this:

a cigar-smoker who smokes 1-2 cigars per day is only 2% more likely to die of smoking related diseases than a person who has never smoked in their life. Likewise, a cigar-smoker who does not inhale is only 4% more likely to die of smoking related diseases than a non-smoker.

[Starz26]

Originally Posted by DennisP

Someone help my dumbass on this:

The 1-2 cigars per day @ 2% increase risk vs the no inhale at 4% increased risk...

Basically they two are mutually exclusive. The number per day includes those who inhale plus those who do not. The Inhale group includes those who smoke any amount per day.

This means that you cannot compare the two as the data from one is not scrubbed from the other...

With that said, the discrepancy would let me to believe that those who do not inhale typicall smoked more than 1-2 per day which could account for the increased risk..