OBJECTIVE To track trends in cigar smoking and assess perceptions of cigar related health risks among Massachusetts adults. DESIGN A random digit dial telephone survey conducted in 1993 and a subsequent monthly random digit dial survey conducted March 1995 to June 2000. PARTICIPANTS 4733 adults who completed the 1993 survey and 14 868 adults who completed the monthly survey between 1995 and...

C igar consumption has been increasing in the United States since 1993. There are several likely reasons for this increase, including promotion by the mass media and the belief that cigar smoking is generally thought to be safer than cigarette smoking. The association of cigar smoking with cancer of the oropharynx and the upper aerodigestive tract and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD...

The burden of death and disease from tobacco use in the United States has been caused overwhelmingly by cigarettes and other smoked tobacco products. In the United States, cigarette consumption declined during 2000-2011; however, consumption of cigars more than doubled during the same period. The cigar market includes diverse product types manufactured with a variety of shapes and sizes, filter...

BACKGROUND While increasing cigarette taxes has been a major policy driver to decrease smoking, taxes on other tobacco products have received less attention. Our aims were to evaluate the impact of chewing tobacco/cigar taxes, cigarette taxes, and smoke-free legislation on adolescent male and female use of smokeless tobacco and cigars. METHODS We analyzed data on 499,381 adolescents age 14-18...

AIMS Blunts are hollowed-out cigars used to smoke marijuana (and perhaps other substances) in the United States. We investigated rates of blunt use; whether cigar use reported in surveys may actually be blunt use; the relationship of blunt to cigar use; characteristics of blunt users; brands of cigars used to make blunts; and drugs added to blunts. DESIGN A school-based survey of youth, the C...

INTRODUCTION Cigar tobacco contains the highly addictive drug nicotine in concentrations similar to those observed in cigarettes; however, since most cigars contain more tobacco, they also contain more nicotine than cigarettes. Most cigar smokers do not inhale cigar smoke, and those who do inhale far less than typical cigarette smokers (Chapter 4). The pH of the smoke from most cigars is suffic...

ed from Turner, J.A.M.; Sillett, R.W.; and McNichol, M.W.Effect of carboxyhaemoglobin and plasma nicotine concentrations inprimary pipe and cigar smokers and ex-cigarette smokers. BritishMedical Journal, 2:1387-1387, 1977. ©1977, British Medical Jour-nal. Reproduced by permission. *Primary pipe and cigar smokers are those who have never been regu-lar cigarette smokers. Secon...

the greater amount of carbonic oxide by maintaining a longer layer of the cigar redhot. It is of interest to compare the proportions of carbonic oxide in straight coal gas, made by simply distillinag coal, witlh that in tobacco smoke. A cigar of average size was smoked under such conditions that the volume of smoke formed could be measurod.Four. fifths only ot' the cigar was smoked in order to ...

Five ex-cigarette smokers and five primary pipe and cigar smokers each smoked a large cigar. Carboxyhaemoglobin (COHb) and plasma nicotine levels were measured. In the ex-cigarette smokers mean COHb rose from 2.9% to 9.6% and plasma nicotine from 79.0 nmol/l to 281 nmol/l (12.8-45.6 ng/ml). This response was similar to that of cigarette smokers smoking cigarettes, which indicated that the subje...