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There's a gentleman who spends an hour or so every night walking around the neighborhood. He's usually watching something on his phone as he walks, and he alway
by js2 8y ago
There's a gentleman who spends an hour or so every night walking around the neighborhood. He's usually watching something on his phone as he walks, and he always smokes a cigar at some point.
I've always wondered if he'd be better off not exercising and not smoking that cigar. I guess now I know.
- wild_preference 8y agoWell, cigars surely cannot be in the same category as something you inhale.
- 8draco8 8y agoOf course they inhale. If not trough cigar then trough second hand smoking which is proven to be even more harmful.
- eloff 8y agoHow can second-hand smoke be "even more harmful" than smoking? That just doesn't make any sense...
- grecy 8y agoBecause you inhale the smoke without a filter. https://www.healthline.com/health/secondhand-smoke-facts https://www.healthline.com/health/secondhand-smoke-facts
- Izkata 8y agoThis is a misunderstanding of GP's confusion, probably due to the effect being terribly named. What caused GP to raise the question, and why I mention the effect's name, is that secondhand smoke also affects the smoker themselves. So the total effect is always going to be worse for the smoker than the people around them - they get both the filtered and unfiltered smoke. However, your link is going for the consent angle - that the people around the smoker are being terribly affected by something they didn't choose. Note it also specifically states "nonsmokers who are exposed to secondhand smoke", not generally that secondhand smoke is worse. What's frustrating is that their reference is a dead link that redirects to an unrelated article, that doesn't include what's supposedly sourced from it, so it's hard to tell what their baseline for "25 to 30 percent greater risk" is, but I'm guessing it's nonsmokers with no exposure at all. That said, I also remember seeing some claims that the filters actually make it worse than commonly believed, that particles or fibers break off of the filters and damage the lungs directly.
- newnewpdro 8y agoThey're not really comparable. What good is being fit when you die in your 50s from lung cancer?
- tgb 8y agoComparing them is what this article is about. By the measure of all-cause mortality, exercise is more important than not smoking, according to these researchers.
- cultus 8y agoCigar smokers typically don't inhale. It's more of a oral cancer risk.
- kazinator 8y agoCigar smokers don't inhale through the cigar, but they inhale, just like second-hand smokers inhale.
- cultus 8y agoIt is less worse though. Cigar smokers do have quite a bit lower rates of lung cancer. https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/tobacco/cigars-fact-sheet https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/t...
- Broken_Hippo 8y agoProbably not. If that combination means that although he's doing one thing unhealthy, yet getting two healthy things in return (exercise and stress relief), he's just getting more risk for a few other things.