Marc S. Micozzi, is a M.D., Ph.D. and a Scientist. He wrote this very interesting paper on the subject of smoking, cigar and pipe smoking in particular…please take a look at his findings.
I’d just started working at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in 1984 when it happened. They announced that, from then on, funding for lung cancer research would go only to smoking cessation and prevention. You see, it seems the “experts” at the NCI had decided they knew “the” cause of lung cancer. And the smoking gun pointed to, well…smoking…