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Article: Cigar Smoking Increases Early Death From Heart Disease, Per American Cancer Society Study.
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- November 8, 1999
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ATLANTA, Nov. 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Cigar smokers experience a 30 percent increased death rate from heart disease before age 75, according to an American Cancer Society study published in this week's Archives of Internal Medicine.
"Any adverse effect of cigars on coronary heart disease is of particular importance given the recent rise in the prevalence of cigar smoking in the United States," says lead author Eric J. Jacobs, Ph.D., an epidemiologist with the American Cancer Society's Department of Epidemiology and Surveillance.
The research team evaluated data from more than 121,000 men aged 30 years or older who identified themselves as "current cigar ...