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Washington, according to Reuters news, the U.S. researchers published the results of that study, the cigars were suffering from lung cancer risk than those who do not cigars than five times.

By the American Cancer Society and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention researchers who prepared the report found that the more cigars, the higher the risk.

American Cancer Society senior epidemiologist Jacobs said: “We did cigars will increase the risk of lung cancer, found that the harmful effects of cigars than we can imagine is much higher.” Jacobs The report also for a power-off.

Researchers in the “Journal of the National Cancer Institute,” wrote the daily pumping three or more cigars, the risk of contracting lung cancer 7.8 times that of non-smokers, and cigar swallowing a strong person and even the risk of lung cancer As much as 11.3 times.

Jacobs’s research team to participate in the American Cancer Society Cancer Prevention Study II of the 137,000 American men.

More than 7800 men said they smoke a cigar at least a day, but never smoke cigarettes or smoke regularly fight and the other 7800 people who belong to the former cigar.

The researchers observed 12 years these people for a long time, the cigars were found in the risk of cancer obviously high.

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture said that in recent years, more and more popular cigars in the United States in 1993 and 1998, sales increased by 50%, reversing 20 years of decline.

U.S. cigar sales in 1998 of more than 5,200,000,000, including the expensive hand-made large cigars to the “little cigars” (cigarillos),.

“New England Journal of Medicine,” published in June last year, a report has come to this conclusion: the cigars were often suffering from oral cancer, larynx, esophagus and lung cancer risk twice as many non-smokers.

The report pointed out that the kind of people infected with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk 45 percent higher, infected with coronary heart disease risk 27 percent higher.