LOL!!
I personally feel the cigars and pipes are "better for you", , than cigarettes. I do miss smoking cigars though, I'll most likely have one or two when we're in Hot Springs, I only smoke a few a year now.
Ed
No doubt the mass market cigarettes are probably the worst possible thing to smoke...there are over 600 ingrediants in a typical Marlboro, Basic, etc, and most include "free base nicotine", which is like doing crack instead of coke. More addictive.
A good pipe of tobacco, or good cigar is generally only residually inhaled, the tobacco is not full of chemicals, and pipe tobacco smells good to other people, in most cases. Even the good cigarettes, like Nat Sherman Naturals, are VERY different in taste/effect than a "typical" brand.
That's my rationaliztion, and I'm sticking to it...