To all smokers
February 22, 2009Cigarette smokers who are unable to kick the habit may be better switching to cigars and pipes. In a recent issue of the British Medical Journal, researchers reported that in a long-term study of over 6,000 men, some 500 men who switched from cigarettes to pipes or cigars, were half as likely to have died from lung cancer, heart disease or chronic lung disease than the nearly 4,000 men who continued to smoke cigarettes. However, those who switched were still at higher risk of dying of heart disease or lung cancer than the nearly 1,300 men who only smoked pipes or cigars and never cigarettes.
