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The Tobacco Reference Guide |
| by David Moyer, MD. |
| | Chapter 18 Pipes And Cigars |
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| | Pipes And Cigars: General |
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| | According to the editor of Cigar Aficionado, the number of cigar smokers in the |
| | United States increased from 3 million in 1992 to 10 million in 1996. |
| | CBS evening news, January 26, 1997 |
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| | The average cigarette has approximately 0.68 grams of tobacco, 0.5 to 1.4 milligrams |
| | of nicotine, 0.5 to 18 mg of tar, and emits 0.5 to 18 mg of carbon monoxide. By |
| | contrast, a cigar has 8 grams of tobacco, 1.7 to 5.2 mg of nicotine, 16 to 110 mg of |
| | tar, and emits 90 to 120 mg of carbon monoxide. |
| | Newsweek, July 21, 1997, p. 57 |
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| | A large cigar is equivalent to four to five cigarettes in nicotine, 15 cigarettes in |
| | tobacco and 25 cigarettes in carbon monoxide. |
| | Texas Department in Health reported in Vitality magazine, December 1997 |
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| | The smoke from one cigar equals the particle emissions of three cigarettes, and has |
| | thirty times the carbon monoxide of one cigarette. |
| | Consumer Reports, March 1997, p. 8, and CNN Headline News, November 20, 1996 |
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| | Cigars emit 22 times more carbon monoxide than cigarettes, and premium cigars |
| | have 15 to 20 times more tobacco than a cigarette. |
| | USA Today, February 23, 1998, p. D10 |
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| | Cigarettes generally contain less than one gram of tobacco and are smoked for about |
| | 7 to 8 minutes. Large cigars commonly contain 5-17 grams of tobacco and are |
| | smoked over intervals as long as 60 to 90 minutes. |
| | Cigars, p. 18 |
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