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Re:Judge Gives E-Cigarette Makers 10 Months to Seek FDA Review by dageshi on Saturday July 13, 2019 @04:23AM (#20427093)
There is a fairly big practical difference between cigars and cigarettes. Cigars (like pipes) aren't traditionally inhaled into the lungs, so if you have genuinely gone from cigarettes to cigars and you aren't inhaling you're probably a lot better off.
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Re:Judge Gives E-Cigarette Makers 10 Months to Seek FDA Review by qazpot on Saturday July 13, 2019 @06:17AM (#20427379)
It is a misconception that cigars are better than cigarettes. One cigar contains as much tobacco as 15-20 cigarettes and although you are not using lungs to breakdown and absorb smoke, you are using your mouth lining which can lead to all sorts of mouth cancers.
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Re:Judge Gives E-Cigarette Makers 10 Months to Seek FDA Review by acollins1331 on Saturday July 13, 2019 @07:37AM (#20427572)
Yeah and your statistics are also misleading because who the hell smokes a full cigar in a sitting?
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Re:Judge Gives E-Cigarette Makers 10 Months to Seek FDA Review by dageshi on Saturday July 13, 2019 @08:05AM (#20427640)
Most people actually. Most people who light a cigar will finish the entire thing.
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Re:Judge Gives E-Cigarette Makers 10 Months to Seek FDA Review by acollins1331 on Saturday July 13, 2019 @08:40AM (#20427759)
In my experience most people will smoke a 1/3 or 1/2 of it and put it back. Then you clip the burnt part off and continue later. Maybe I only smoke around lightweights.
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Re:Judge Gives E-Cigarette Makers 10 Months to Seek FDA Review by dageshi on Saturday July 13, 2019 @09:49AM (#20428045)
That's very much the exception than the rule, I've smoked cigars for 5 years at this point and nobody I know who also smokes does that. Usually I pencil in between 45 minutes-2 hours to smoke a cigar depending on size.
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Re:Judge Gives E-Cigarette Makers 10 Months to Seek FDA Review by ppseafield on Saturday July 13, 2019 @12:51PM (#20428936)
That's not my experience. Relighting a cigar tastes awful, and half-smoking it can dry out the other half. Most folks smoke at least one full cigar in a single sitting.
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