For what its worth, I literally know no one who inhales cigar smoke. A strong cigar is quite capable of making you feel very ill just from absorption via the mouth (too much nicotine), inhaling would quite likely have you throwing up.
There is a fairly big practical difference between cigars and cigarettes. Cigars (like pipes) aren't traditionally inhaled into the lungs, so if you have genuinely gone from cigarettes to cigars and you aren't inhaling you're probably a lot better off.
I don't know much about cigars, but I was always under the impression that cigar smokers do not inhale. Is the nicotine absorption in the mouth sufficiently efficient that smoking a cigar can make grown men nauseous?
So the "you don't inhale it" part of that has absolutely nothing to do with the properties of the pipe/cigar. You can easily inhale on both and you can also choose not to inhale with a cigarette.
I smoke cigars occasionally....I don't inhale any smoke. Before puffing I inhale a little air, close my throat, then pull the smoke into my mouth via suction on the cigar, then exhale to blow the smoke out of my mouth.
The previous straw analogy is accurate. It's the same effect with water via straw and smoke via cigar.
Hah, I'm very hesitant to discuss cigar smoking outside of forums dedicated to it because people tend not to know a lot about it and lump it in with cigarettes.
In reality they're quite different, for one I have personally never found cigars in any way addictive, they certainly do have nicotine in them, lots of nicotine but since you don't inhale (mouth only) cigar smoke it seems like you don't get the super fast hit that cigarette smokers do which in turn means they're not addictive? I'm not sure of the science behind it, all I know is myself and the others who I know in the hobby do consider cigars a hobby to be picked up and put down, in a weird way the actual collecting becomes more important than the smoking. I know people who maybe smoke 1 cigar a month but are constantly buying and selling to expand their collections.
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