New research from the United States has revealed that not only is cigar and pipe smoking as damaging as cigarettes, the risk of respiratory disease including emphysema and chronic bronchitis is doubled. Smoking cigars and pipes are also associated with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which causes irreversible damage and increasing difficult breathing. Lead researcher Dr. Graham Barr of Columbia University in New York, USA thus advises physicians to counsel their patients to quit pipe and cigar smoking along with cigarettes.

Many thanks Dr. Barr and Columbia University colleagues for reminding of the dangers of all forms of tobacco. May such harmful substances disappear as we cultivate healthier lifestyles for ourselves and cherished loved ones.

Reference
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=118835&sectionid=3510210
http://www.wkbw.com/healthy/84414122.html
http://www.webmd.com/lung-cancer/news/20100216/cigars-and-pipes-no-safer-than-cigarettes
http://topnews.ae/content/21487-cigars-pipes-equally-harmful-cigarettes