I agree with Doc. Any tobacco isn't good for you but when done in moderation the long-term effects aren't as bad.
What I found strange is that a lot of heavy cigar smokers live very long lives... many years more than the national average.
For example...
Arturo Fuente, 85 years old.
Stanford Newman, currently 89 years old.
George Burns, 100 years old, 1896-1996, smoked 10-15 cigars a day. ("If I'd taken my doctor's advice and quit smoking when he advised me to, I wouldn't have lived to go to his funeral.")
Milton Berle, 94 years old, 1908-2002.
Winston Churchill, 90 years old, 1874-1965.
Zino Davidoff, 87 years old, 1906-1993.
Groucho Marx, 86 years old, 1890-1977.
Red Auerbach, currently 87 years old.
Alejandro Robaina, currently 85 years old.
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), 75 years old, 1835-1910, 22-40 cigars a day.
J.P. Morgan, 76 years old, 1837-1913, more than a dozen cigars a day.
Sigmund Freud, 83 years old, 1856-1939, averaged 20 cigars a day.
Alan "Ace" Greenberg, currently 77 years old.
Henry Clay, 75 years old, 1777-1852. (WOW, I wonder what the life expectancy was back then)
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens), 75 years old, 1835-1910, 22-40 cigars a day.
Avo Uvezian, currently 78 years old.
Jose Padron, currently 78 years old, smokes 14 cigars a day.
Fidel Castro, currently 78 years old.
Compay Segundo, died at 95 and said he smoked cigars since he was a child, lighting his grandmothers puros for her.
Albert Levin, previous owner of Holt's Cigar Company, died at 92.
Dr. Ernst Schneider, President and Chairman of the Board at Oettinger Davidoff Group, currently 84. (smokes 3-4 cigars a day)
Angel Oliva, Oliva Tobacco Co, died at 89.
Many of these men lived 10,15,20 years past the statistic average of their time.
Personally, I think that stress and anxiety is the number one cause of disease and cigars definitely make me more relaxed and carefree.
Here are two good articles for leisure reading...
http://www.ourhouseblog.com/?p=214
http://www2.cigarweekly.com/magazine/lifes...eral_200601.php