Popularity of Cigar Smoking
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At the same time that cigarette smoking has been diminishing in its appeal, cigar smoking has been gaining adherents in American society. One reason for the spread of cigar smoking has been the fact that the habit has been taken up by a number of celebrities who have also participated in high-profile advertising and who have made cigar-smoking the "hip" social act. When Demi Moore appeared on the cover of Cigar Aficionado magazine with a cigar and equated a cigar with a fine wine, one critic notes that this equation "has firmly taken hold among the pretenscienti, neo yuppies who love the 'naughty,' politically incorrect frisson that comes with every public puff" (Motavalli 42): No longer is the cigar smoker stereotyped as the heartless capitalist depicted in a Working Assets ad; now he - and increasingly, she - is cool, a rebel with a rich inner life. It is the tattoo and the belly button ring of the late 90s, and its indulgence is catered to by upscale cigar bars with walk in humidors. Americans smoked an incredible 4.5 billion cigars in 1996, a 44.5 percent rise from 1993 (Motavalli 42). Such celebrity endorsements have been a major reason why cigar smoking has increased, but another reason is indeed the fact that the dangers of cigarette smoking are so widely known, while the dangers of cigar smoking have not been given the same media attention. Smoking of any kind at least begins as a means to achieve an image, usually an image of adulthood for teenagers, or
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ar can contain as much tobacco as a whole pack of cigarettes. Smoking just two or three cigars a day produces the same level of exposure to nicotine, and both nicotine and tar are heavily concentrated in cigars:
Even holding an unlit cigar in your mouth is dangerous, as it may enable nicotine absorption. Secondary smoke is also an issue. "Because cigar smokers do not fully inhale a majority of the smoke when they light up," says Thomas Gibson, ALA president, "they deposit more secondhand smoke in the air around them." This secondhand smoke contains some 4,000 chemicals, 23 of which are poisonous and 43 of which are carcinogenic (Motavalli 42).
Cigar smoking has caught on among women because of "glamorous" smokers like Demi Moore and Madonna. While it is estimated that only four percent of cigar smokers are women, gender health statistics are already being affected, as noted by Dr. Nieca Goldberg, the head of cardiac rehabilitation at Lenox Hill Hospital in New York, when she points out that "the leading cancer in women is not breast cancer anymore - it's lung cancer, because of the increase in smoking among women" (Motavalli 43).
Another at-risk group is teenagers, and while cigars are, like cigarettes, an "adults o
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