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Smoking Pipe Tobacco Effectsby Richard Munroe Smoking pipe tobacco is no longer a habit or addiction associated with the older old school generation. There is a new phenomenon that has gripped a growing number of relatively younger members of population demographics as we know it. Due to the widely talked about dangers of smoking tobacco cigarettes an increasing number of people especially teenage tobacco users is migrating to other form of tobacco delivery. On the raise in popularity is the use of smokeless tobacco in the form of chewing tobacco, cigar smoking, tobacco water pipes as well as pipe smoking. In reality there is a general misconception that these tobacco smoking alternatives are healthier hence risk free. Although smoking pipe tobacco health effects have not been widely studied the fact that pipe smokers smoke tobacco raises justifiable concern. Tobacco in combustion produces up to 4000 toxins 60 of which are cancer causing carcinogens. Like cigar smoking, the general practice of pipe smoking is that smokers do not inhale the smoke. Inhaling the smoke leads to bitter tounge taste which is not worth the act.
The greatest smoking health risk associated with smoking tobacco from a pipe appears to be lip cancer. Tobacco smoke invariably and repeatedly comes into contact with the lips of a smoker. Even though this is the case, mortality from lip cancer appear to be lower as this type of cancer generally responds well to medication. A research carried out in the United States involving 138 000 men concluded that pipe tobacco smoking once a day gave a 30% increase to smokers of dying from heart attack or stoke than people who had never smoked. It is clear that risk seems to increase with the number of pipes smoked. For this reason some pro-pipe writers encourage not more than 4 pipe bowls per day. Apart from association with heart disease, chronic lung disease, cancer of the lip, tongue and throat. Pipe tobacco smoking may also result in periodontal disease, tooth loss and bad breath to the same extent as found in cigarette smokers. Since all tobacco contains nicotine, tobacco pipes smokers may require quit smoking programs and stop smoking products to cease smoking without less risk of a permanently relapsing. Smoking pipe tobacco continues to increase in popularity for the wrong reasons. In order to control its use and protect the general public from pipe smoking related second hand smoke there is need to cover the practice under existing smoking laws and general tobacco regulations.
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For this reason the available yet limited research seem to suggest that since smokers do not inhale they have a lesser risk of developing 