Anonymous wrote:You might want to do some quick research on bladder cancer, too. Most people don't know that bladder cancer is directly linked to smoking. Wearing a bag of urine isn't that cool.

+1. My granddad smoked 3 or 4 cigarettes a day, stopped in his early 50s, and still died young from bladder cancer after being told that the damage to his lungs from smoking was "minimal/reversed."

My grandnother smoked for 50 years and didn't get lung cancer until she was 95. A friends mom never smoked and died of it when she was in her 50s. There are no guarantees.

As long as they are really expensive top-notch cigars you should be fine.

Could it? Sure. Will it? George burns lived to a ripe old age.

Yes

Geneticist here. The truth is that smoking 3 cigars a day for, let's say, 20 years, will greatly increase your risk of developing whatever weakness was already in your genetic make-up (enhanced by the rest of your lifestyle).

1. Lung cancer is heavily gene-driven. If you have the predisposition and smoke, you're done for, absolutely. Did anyone in your biological family have lung cancer? Then you should never smoke yourself. It's a most painful thing to die of.

2. Heart disease. Already on top of the list because of our population's eating and exercise habits. If you don't eat clean, exercise and are already naturally lean, adding smoking to your lifestyle will hasten the inevitable cardiac issues, and you will die.

3. Second-hand smoke. Don't smoke around elderly, pregnant women and young children. If the people around you are genetically predisposed to lung cancer, despite never have smoked themselves, smoking around them repeatedly will likely kill them.

4. Cigar=cigarette=tobacco. You can discuss the relative merits of any mode of ingestion, it's still dangerous.

3 cigars a day? WTF? yuck

Signs point to yes

YES IT WILL.

You might want to do some quick research on bladder cancer, too. Most people don't know that bladder cancer is directly linked to smoking. Wearing a bag of urine isn't that cool.

I mean, it isn't guaranteed to - just like some people smoke cigarettes and never get lung cancer - but you're placing yourself at an extremely elevated risk like with all tobacco.

Also holy crap I can't imagine how gross you will smell.

Do you think that "hand-made" confers mystical powers? The risks of smoking tobacco are established and well-known. Is it possible that you could escape the bullet? Sure. But how the cigars are rolled has nothing tondo with it.

Yes. My spouse had a boss who chain smoked cigars all day, no joke. Got lung cancer and was dead within 6 months of diagnosis.

Yes.

First things first. I don't want to hear from anti-smoking zealots. I want an an honest answer from people who would know. Would smoking 3 top-noth hand-made cigars a day( one after breakfast, one after lunch, and one after dinner) ruin my life?