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>>15516706
I don't smoke cigarettes though. I have between one and four cigars a week along with one to five pipes.

>page 112: “Death rates for current pipe smokers were little if at all higher than for non-smokers, even with men smoking 10 pipefuls per day and with men who had smoked pipes for more than 30 years.”

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/nn/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-101584932X202-doc

And this was the last major study to look at pipe smoking with a sample size big enough to be staitstically useful. As for cigars, see the image.

Is there a risk? Sure. But it's far lower than you think. Meanwhile living in a large urban area carries a higher risk of lung cancer than pipes or cigar smoking. And note, these figures are for daily, routine smoking. If you use tobacco as an occasional treat, that risk declines even further.