Newbie - How Do I Puff Cigars?

[Roham]

What about health risks?

As I said before, I've yet to try a cigar. In fact, I've never smoked anything in my entire life. If/When I try a cigar, I'd like it to be a long cigar. But I'd only smoke them very occasionally - maybe even less than once a month.

Would even that damage my health? And would I become addicted to cigars?

Don't worry about it. An example of someone you can do a google search on is George Burns. He smoked cigars everyday since he was 17. Never once inhaled and never smoked a cigarette. And he smoked an average 7 a day in his adult years. He lived to be 100. Now that's the life.... My opinion is, if you smoke them in a well ventilated area(ie: outside) then it doesn't affect your health at all. In my eyes, it's on par with sitting infront of a fire every night and smelling the smoke it creates. No one ever mentions the health drawbacks of that I also don't think you would become addicted even a little bit....

[Kenyth]

Smoking anything is a health risk, period. Smoke is bad for you, period. If you want to smoke, you have to come to terms with that.

That being said, cigar smoking habits tend to be less addictive than cigarrettes. This has to do with innumerable differences like frequency of smoking, inhaling, etc. Since cigar smoke isn't inhaled, it poses far less of a lung cancer and emphysema risk. But, since there is more tobacco, the tobacco is fermented, the smoke is unfiltered, and the contact time in the mouth is greatly increased, the risks for mouth and throat type cancers is greatly increased.

Don't think that it's impossible to become addicted to cigars or get cancer from them. It's very possible. If you want to smoke, simply smoke in moderation. In other words, don't smoke 5 a day, every day. I smoke about three or four a week. I make it a special occasion thing, like drinking alcoholic beverages. This also helps keep the cost reasonable.

[Dmitri]

Don't forget, real cigars, good cigars, are pure tobacco and don't have all of the additives and chemicals that cigarettes do.