Thank you to the 2 or 3 people that actually bothered with a real answer.

Responses to the rest of those that wasted my time...

"Tobacco causes cancer, along with a host of other problems, including heart disease. So if it is really a concern, don't smoke any at all."

- The quantity of tobacco is undoubtedly a crucial factor, so this is a worthless comment.


"Life will kill, eventually. Christopher Reeve's wife never smoked and she died of lung cancer..... My grandfather smoked 2 or 3 packs of cigarettes a day for 45 years. Not a drop of cancer."

- Basing overall probabilities on one or two random cases is as dumb as seeing 5 consecutive roulette spins land on black and concluding that the ball always lands on black.


"So, I smoke on average 3 per week or 3 x 52 = 156 per year X .00274 = .42744 or 42.7% chance of getting cancer. If I were the average smoker, then almost half of us on this forum would be getting cancer. This is not true.."

- It could be true, half of the forum may very well get cancer. Last time I checked, it does not appear immediately after smoking, and pretending to know the % of people here who will get cancer is not helpful. I'm certainly not saying that 1/2 eventually will as a result of smoking cigars, but basing general probabilities on the current % of forum members with cancer is ridiculous.


"I think your next step would be to go to the National Cattlemen's Beef Association and check ask the correlation between red meat and heart disease...."

- If I wanted to know that, I wouldn't be posting to a cigar forum