First off I apologize for resurrecting this month old thread... but I found some information I thought might be interesting to the people who had expressed health concerns in this thread.
I found
this to be a very interesting read.
The findings of the
National Cancer Institute indicate that casual cigar smokers (1-2 per day) who do not inhale the cigar smoke have a increased risk of lung / oral cancers which doesn't even satisfy the margin of error, making the effective increased risk absolutely 0.
Obviously, regular cigar smokers (especially those who smoke more than 1-2 per day) have to face some increased health risks. But even those risks are relatively low when compared to, say, smoking cigarettes.
Also an interesting second-hand smoke quote from the blog article:
...The hysterics focus on this fact and loudly proclaim that there is "no safe level of tobacco smoke." In my research into this question I even ran across a test done by the National Cancer Institute, which tried to show that going into a smoking lounge filled with cigar smokers at a cigar night was dangerous, so the measured the Carbon Monoxide level, and found that at peak levels for the night the room was as dangerous as breathing in your car on the highway...
