Can Smoking A Pipe Give You Cancer

 A study by the prestigious American Association for Cancer Research found that pipe tobacco smokers were more likely to develop head and neck, liver, and lung cancers. Cigar and pipe smoking is associated with a significantly higher risk of death from tobacco-related cancers as well as cardiovascular causes. Although the risk of getting cancer from smoking cigars and pipes is lower than from cigarettes, it is not zero. 

Regular pipe smoking is known to be associated with serious health risks, including an increased risk of various forms of cancer, as well as lung and cardiovascular disease. According to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, cigar and pipe smoking is associated with a significantly higher risk of death from tobacco-related cancer as well as cardiovascular disease. Pipe and cigar smoking still carries a very large increase in risk, but this risk is lower than the really huge increase in lung cancer risk from cigarette smoking. Compared to people who have never smoked cigarettes, pipe and cigar smokers are 5 times more likely to get lung cancer, and cigarette smokers are 25 times more likely to get lung cancer. 

The reason why pipe and cigar smokers have a lower risk of cancer than cigarette smokers is that pipe and cigar smokers tend to smoke less frequently and inhale less deeply than cigarette smokers. However, smokers rarely get lung cancer unless they inhale smoke directly. If passive smoking is so dangerous, lung cancer poses a health risk to smokers because they are exposed to secondhand smoke as much, if not more, than those around them. Even if smokers don't inhale, they are still exposed to the toxic chemicals in the pipe. 

People who smoke pipes may face a high risk of death from heart disease, especially those who inhale the smoke. Adults exposed to secondhand smoke have an increased risk of heart disease, stroke, lung cancer, and decreased fertility. Children exposed to secondhand smoke have a higher risk of sudden infant death syndrome, ear infections, respiratory infections, and much more frequent and severe asthma attacks. Because pipe tobacco burns at a lower temperature than cigarette tobacco, pipe smoke can actually contain higher concentrations of carbon monoxide, a dangerous gas, as well as other carcinogenic chemicals such as nitrosamines. 

All cigarette smoke, natural or not, contains many carcinogenic (carcinogenic) chemicals and toxins, including tar and carbon monoxide, that are produced when the tobacco itself burns. While smoking is often the leading cause of COPD, other forms of tobacco, such as pipes and cigars, can also contribute to secondhand smoke inhalation and damage delicate lung tissue. Cancer risk increases with tobacco use and years of smoking. For decades, men who reported smoking or smoking 11 or more pipes per day had a higher risk of dying from colorectal cancer, similar to the results for smokers in the CPS-II (44). More