What's worse for your health? stress or cigarettes?
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First off, I want to complement you on giving your readers information.  However, before I give my anwer, I want all viewers to pay no attention to either article (or to take them both "with a grain of salt," as the saying goes).  Look at the source for each article: the stress article was written by Psychology Today (experts in the field, but would definately/obviously be biased) and the smoking article was written by RJR (not exactly the most reliable source, if you know what I mean).\n\n     So, as you know, both stress and smoking are bad for you.  Yes, I know I tend to be long winded, but I like to make sure I get each point across in a clear and understandable manner.  The dangers of smoking are well recognized, but two words are often left out: preventable and predictable.  People can prevent themselves from smoking, versus stress, which is a part of life.  Smoking is predictable (and measurable): if 10 45 year olds smoke 30 cigarettes a day for 5 years, the outcome is predictable and measureable.  \n\n     10 45 year olds have different thresholds/ideas of what is stressful, so smoking is worse, much worse.
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Cigarettes, if that counts. I smoked for 6 years, and I quit a year ago.\n\nI had some other drug issues aswell, but I've been better for over 3 years.
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Stress, which leads to other health problems.
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If you don't breathe in cigar's smoke, maybe they are better. Anyway, we are talking about two similar risks with both bad for health, so it's not logic to find the worst one.\nDo you like to jump from the 7th or 4th floor?
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Cancer. Sometimes a cigar...will kill you.
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Smoking is bad for your health - period.
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Marijuana is worse for you than cigarettes cause it's green (not dried up) and you don't use a filter. But you usually smoke less of it, so it balances out.\n\nyou could smoke rolled up newspapers or dried up cabbage and it would also be bad for you.
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Cigarettes are worse!
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Smoking is addictive.  Cigarettes have many different chemicals in them along with tobacco - stuff like Ammonia, Benzene, Formaldehyde, Arsenic to name a few of the worst.  The longer you smoke the harder it is to give it up and when someone does it is usually because of a major health crises.  I know because I have seen.  I have never smoked but both my parents did.  My father had to give it up when he needed a bypass and his chances were given less than a 50% survival not because of his heart but because of the shape his lungs were in.  Smoking had done so much damage that no doctor was sure he would be able to make it out from under the anesthesia. Luckily he did and hasn't smoked since.  He also used to tell my brother and myself not to smoke because even though he knew the dangers he could not at the time quit.
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I quit smoking about 5 months ago.  I started with the gum, but after about 3 days I had enough of it.  Then I quit cold turkey.  For about the first 3 weeks, I wanted to punch every living being in the face.  I was very irritable.  Then I started to calm down.  After about 5 weeks, I started to forget about cigarettes (believe me, you'll think of them constantly when you quit).  It got easier and easier.  However, don't relapse if you get stressed.  About a week ago, I started smoking again because I was so stressed.  I am going to quit starting tomorrow, but it's going to suck again.  Just stick with it!!!!!!!
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I WISH I HAD NEVER STARTED!!! Sorry for yelling that but it's beyond true! I stink, my health is in jeopardy every time I light up and now I'm pregnant again and I'm having a terrible time quitting! Not only am I killing myself but I'm hurting and possibly killing my unborn child! Smoking is harder to quit than heroin, I know this personally, and everyday I feel awful because I have no will power!
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♥i don't smoke. smoking can be hazardous to your health♥
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contributes to many types of cancer, emphazymia and other breathing problems. Besides the fact that cigarettes are really expensive and addicting and makes you smell bad. It also affects the people around you.
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It's a high possibility, stress can cause a lot of physical and health related problem, as well as eating unhealthy foods
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Neither is healthier than the other.  Both cause cancer...just different forms of it.  With chew, you can get mouth or tongue cancer (quite disfiguring after surgery), as well as cancer in the lining of your stomach, your esophagus, and into your bladder\n\nBest bet, ditch tobacco all together.  You will live longet and healthier.
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No, cigars are not as bad for your health as cigarettes, as long as you smoke them the correct way and smoke in moderation.\n\nThe tobacco used to make cigars is very different from the tobacco used to make cigarettes.  Cigar tobacco has less nicotine to begin with. Add to that the fact that no nicotine is added to cigars to "enhance" them, and a cigar, even though it is bigger than a cigarette, contains less nicotine for its size than a comparable cigarette would.  It is not common to find a cigar smoker who "has to have" a cigar.\n\nCigars are smoked differently as well.  You cannot "chain smoke" cigars.  Most cigar smokers smoke one, or at most two cigars a day.  Many cigar smokers only smoke one or two a week.  Again, part of that has to do with the lower nicotine content of cigar tobacco.  Part of it has to do with the fact that cigar smoke is never, never inhaled if you are smoking correctly.\n\nA cigar is "sipped" -- the smoke is taken into the mouth and then then exhaled out.  It is never drawn into the lungs (except by someone who does not know how to smoke a cigar).  A cigar is also smoked slowly, over thirty minutes to an hour or more depending on the size of the cigar.  This slower smoking keeps the smoke cooler, and lowers the amount of tar in the smoke as well.  \n\nFor all of these reasons, cigars are much less harmful when smoked properly, and smoked in moderation, than cigarettes.  There have been numerous research studies since the 1960's that have shown that moderate, correct cigar smoking has about the same effect on your health as daily commuting in your car in city traffic with the windows closed -- the air pollution, ozone, etc. that enters your body is about the same in both cases.\n\nThere was even one study, cited at the website in the Sources for this answer, that showed that Cigar smokers have a *lower* risk of cancer than non-smokers.  Don't get too wound up about that though, since the difference wasn't really statistically significant.  What the study really found was that there was basically no effect on your health from smoking cigars (properly, without inhaling smoke into the lungs) until someone smoked between 5 and 7 cigars a day.\n\nI know a lot of cigar smokers, and I smoke cigars myself.  I don't know anyone who smokes 5 to 7 cigars a day.  I don't smoke that many a week.\n\nSo, the answer to your question based on scientific and medical studies over the past thirty years is, "No."  Smoking a cigar is not as bad for your health as smoking cigarettes.
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both are, any smoke that is breathed by someone not smoking that cigartee.  For example I have asthma, so alot of smoke, or at times just a little can make me physcially sick.