article_snippet.sent: Cigars may be more harmful to smokers than cigarettes, researchers warned yesterday.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers have warned that cigars may be more harmful to smokers than cigarettes.
article_snippet.sent: Researchers found the risk for cigar smokers of dying from oral, oesophageal or lung cancer was at least as bad as for cigarettes .
article_snippet.sent: Researchers analysed 22 studies, including five from Britain, and found the risks for cigar smokers of dying from oral, oesophageal or lung cancer was at least as bad as for cigarettes.
article_snippet.sent: cigarettes also found that those who smoked cigars and had previously smoked cigarettes had a much higher risk of lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease compared to cigar smokers who had not previously smoked cigarettes.
article_snippet.sent: cigarettes said cigarettes believed this could be due in part to the inhalation patterns of these different types of cigar smokers.
article_snippet.sent: Cindy Chang, of the US Food and Drug Administration, which did the study, said: ‘Some risks associated with cigar smoking can be as high or higher than with cigarette smoking.
article_snippet.sent: Cigar smoking is linked to fatal oral, oesophageal, pancreatic, laryngeal, and lung cancers, as well as heart disease and aortic aneurysm.
highlights_snippet.sent: Risks for cigar smokers of dying from cancer 'at least as bad as