See also:

• Health: Specific Substances: Tobacco: Effects: Mouth and Throat  (11)
• Recreation: Tobacco: Cigars  (74)
• Recreation: Tobacco: Pipes  (32)

Cigar and Pipes Cause Tooth and Gum Disease - Recent research shows that cigars and pipe smoking have nearly the same adverse effects on periodontal health and tooth loss as cigarette smoking..

Cigar Smoking and Cancer - Information from the American Cancer Society on cigar trends, constituents of cigar smoke, cancer disease and deaths caused by cigars, other health effects of cigars, and secondhand cigar smoke..

Cigar Smoking is a Serious Risk to Public Health - Summary of recent scientific findings concludes cigars are not a safe alternative to cigarettes, and that both cause addiction, cancer, and secondhand smoke..

Cigars and Tobacco-related Cancers - Scientific paper estimates the effects of cigars; covers the death caused, not disease..

Dr. Koop - Don't Have a Cigar - Article examines promotion and marketing of cigars, and briefly lists their health effects..

Health Risks Associated With Cigar Smoking - AMA report summarizes findings from a scientific conference, including cigars cause nicotine addiction and lung cancer..

Pipe Smoking and Health - An MD examines the risks and benefits of pipe smoking in terms of health and well being..

Smoking Cessation at About.com - Cigars - Cigar smoking has become trendy in the past few years, but no warning has been placed on the labels to show the health risks involved. They can involve head and neck cancers rather than lung cancer. Collection of articles outlines the effects and proposed warnings..

The Tobacco Reference Guide: Pipes and Cigars - Fully footnoted factsheets on use and effects..

Effect of Cigar Smoking on the Risk of Cardiovascular Disease, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Cancer in Men - Summary of June 1999 article in the New England Journal of Medicine covers what cigars do to the heart, lungs, and throat. (June 10, 1999).