I wish someone would stand-up to these people

[Monkey]

It's kind of funny my doctor doesn't seemed concerned with my cigar smoking at all. I'm diabetic so I gotta go in every three months for another blood test. Every so often they re-ask me all the obnoxious questions about medication, drugs and smoking. Last time I was there I mentioned cigar smoking and she said "If you don't inhale just don't even tell us about it". This would probably be different if I had mouth or throat cancer.

Basically they are taking the problems of cigarette smoking and applying it over-broadly to every tobacco product probably because there's no way to find only cigarette smokers. Therefore all nicotine is bad. This is especially funny because they won't hire people trying to quit smoking using patches or gum.

[cheaphumidors]

[QUOTE=Monkey;23436]It's kind of funny my doctor doesn't seemed concerned with my cigar smoking at all. I'm diabetic so I gotta go in every three months for another blood test. Every so often they re-ask me all the obnoxious questions about medication, drugs and smoking. Last time I was there I mentioned cigar smoking and she said "If you don't inhale just don't even tell us about it". This would probably be different if I had mouth or throat cancer.
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I asked both my doctor and my dentist prior to starting smoking cigars and they both said not to worry about it, anything in moderation. In fact, my doctor is a cigar smoker himself.