Is it bad to smoke more than 4 or 5 a day?

Dude, everything is bad for you... Smoking is bad for you... Sitting is the new smoking... Meat gives you cancer... More people die every year from pathogens found in vegetables than in meat... The water is poisoned, the oceans are dying, there's too many people and not enough food... You're definitely gonna die... Smoke em if you got em...

its definitely not healthy

how unhealthy? not sure a good study has ever been done.

Healthy? Not healthy?
At my age, who cares.
If it hasn't killed me by now, I'm just not gonna worry about it.

When compared to all the other crap you have in your daily intake just from living that is bad for you, I doubt 4-5 cigars a day really ranks high on the OH CHIT meter. I mean we do live in a world now to where Dupont and 3M has already contaminated the entire human existence. Thanks to them we can now have babies that look like Lars off of the movie The Goonies. So I agree with Opel. Smoke em if you got em!

If they're Gurkhas, well, yeah . . . they are VERY bad for you.

You are definitely in the range that there are known statistical increased health risks. How old are you? If you are 20 I would worry more than if you didn't start till you were 50. There are so many other factors. Alcohol, obesity, stress, pollution, heredity, etc. A fiver a day in New York City is a lot worse than the same in Montana.

Four or 5 a day does seem borderline excessive. Sure, maybe not close to the 15-20 that Freud, Twain and Grant may have smoked but you’d have to be burning cigars from the time you got up to just before bedtime.

I generally just don’t have the time to smoke more than 2 in one day, let alone 4. I’m sure the size of the cigars will have some bearing on the “healthiness” of that many on an everyday basis.

I know a guy that got hit by a bus....he didn't make it...36 years old....

Not really sure if 4-5 cigars a day is bad, but it's not as bad as getting hit by a bus...8-[

Rumor is Mrs. Churchill made Winston wear an asbestos bib at night because he'd fall asleep smoking

You want to talk unhealthy, that asbestos chit'll kill ya

I usually have had my third one by 10 o'clock in the morning...

But then, I get up at 4am...

I did switch to decaff...

So there's that...

I had 7 today... but only 5 yesterday. 7 is about normal for me on a fishing day.

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^THIS
Might catch up to me, but until then fire 'em up!

It might be a pube hair bit of an exaggeration but after the FPOA incident I am not so sure lol. Granted all I have to go by is documentary and court findings so that isn't saying much in today's world. To my understanding the only non contaminated blood they could find was on ice from the military that predated the invention of Teflon. They "supposedly" tested blood from all around the world but who knows.

Either way with over 1 billion passenger cars that crank up daily in the world, I wouldn't worry too much about 4 cigars. Now if you are sucking on the tailpipe of those running cars, well I would then probably cut back one maybe two a week, Maybe! I would probably try cutting out a fruit first like limes or raisins.

Eh.................you never know what's gonna happen........smoke what, where, when you like.

A good while back, I found myself going up to 2, sometimes 3 a day......................this from 3-4 week when I started cigars up again around 2010 after a loooong no-smoke hiatus.
I noticed some things I didn't like............... palate fried, just didn't feel all that great..........bigger hole in my wallet........and daughter moved in with baby, so there's that.

Went back to one per day......for me......that's about perfect. Every now and again, on a nice Saturday, I'll have 2.
It's time for me to go have my cigar as a matter of fact....

But what about the beneficial effects of the Teflon lubricating the blood so it moves through veins and arteries more easily? Hell, it may even prevent strokes!

Heh-heh. It reminds me of this gem from The Onion back in 1997:

https://www.theonion.com/massive-oil-spill-results-in-improved-wildlife-viscosit-1819564476 

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Well, for myself the blood lube didn't workout to well but, I think that was because my parents was more into cast iron pans. I just didn't have enough teflon intake in my day.

Now that oil spill Oh man, that was a miracle in action. From that point you didn't have to slather your pans in crisco. It was like the animals came with built in butter. The only issue that it did cause was the club would just glance off the baby seals heads. It was hard to get a solid hit on their little skulls. This did however lead to the wonderful invention of concave clubs. One side of the club was concave so it would cup the little skulls during the swing and not ricochet or glance off the pre-lubed baby seal. If you caught it just right it would make that nice sound like when you would drop an egg. I still got my club hanging on the wall. The locals started calling my club Hexenbane. Oh, and it had 4 fluted places in it to rest my cigars during break. Those was the days.

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Over the course of a year, I average just under 1 per day - some days 0, some 3-4