Habit
Cigar smoking still carries significant cardiopulmonary and cancer risk.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Superscript reference numbers link to the Sources bibliography.
Composite Rating
Blends evidence depth, community direction, safety friction, and completeness.
Evidence Intensity
99/100
High depth from human/RCT/meta counts
Community Direction
0
Mixed / Neutral • confidence Minimal
Safety Friction
100/100
High signal from adverse/interaction markers
Data Completeness
100%
Studies 24 • mentions 0 • links 35
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Classification: reduce.[1070,1183,1341, etc.]
Best fit: Users who perceive cigars as lower-risk alternatives..[1070,1183,1341, etc.]
Goal alignment: Longevity, Heart Health, Performance, Immune Support.[1070,1183,1341, etc.]
Classification
Reduce
Evidence Tier
MEDIUM
Best Fit
Users who perceive cigars as lower-risk alternatives.
Primary Focus
Longevity, Heart Health
Clinical Depth
Humans: 152 • RCTs: 5 • Meta: 1
Cohort / Real-World
Cohort signals: 21
Safety Markers
Adverse signals: 19 • Interactions: 0
Freshness, trend, and study timeline for this item
Status
Trend
↑ Growing evidence base
Depth
152 total studies · 7 recent
Timeline
Total indexed
152
Human studies
152
Cohort signals
21
Safety adverse signals
19
Dependency signals
15
Cardiometabolic signals
8
Weighted direction score: 0 (Mixed / Neutral)
High when replicated human meta-analysis/trial/cohort depth is present for the habit or exposure.
Total indexed
152
Human studies
152
Cohort signals
21
Safety adverse signals
19
Dependency signals
15
Cardiometabolic signals
8
Randomized trials
5
Neuropsych signals
3
In vitro / tissue
1
Meta-analyses
1
Sleep signals
1
Distribution of evidence by study design strength
Evidence Strength: High
PMID 35816331 • 2022 Sep 1
Association Between Exposure to Tobacco Content on Social Media and Tobacco Use: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
JAMA pediatrics
Open PubMedPMID 27122063 • 2017 May
Toxicant exposure from smoking a little cigar: further support for product regulation.
Tobacco control
Open PubMedPMID 40815515 • 2025 Aug 1
Little Cigar and Cigarillo Graphic Health Warnings and Quitting Behaviors: A Randomized Clinical Trial.
JAMA network open
Open PubMedBenefit reports: 0
Adverse reports: 0
No-effect reports: 0
Mixed reports: 0
Unclear reports: 0
Signal confidence: 0.00
Benefits
Adverse
No Effect
Community confidence 0.00 with mentions: benefit 0, adverse 0, no-effect 0.
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aggregate • unclear
No directional first-hand mentions captured in the current community corpus; source links are retained for traceability.
Open mentionEvidence Sources
PUBMED • Human lifestyle/habit literature
Counts from structured habit/exposure PubMed query set.
Outcome: Humans 58, RCT 0, meta 0, cohort 7, sleep signals 1, cardiometabolic signals 5.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2019 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 31269935 from BMC public health.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,,, etc.]
No directional mention volume was resolved; fallback profile metadata is shown in other sections.
Animal-only studies
0
Composite of study volume, RCTs, and meta-analyses
PMID 37347538 • 2023 Jun 22
Evaluating Declines in Compliance With Ecological Momentary Assessment in Longitudinal Health Behavior Research: Analyses From a Clinical Trial.
Journal of medical Internet research
Open PubMedPMID 36424139 • 2024 Mar 19
Addiction potential of combustible menthol cigarette alternatives: a randomised cross-over trial.
Tobacco control
Open PubMedPMID 40523793 • 2025 Jun 16
Campaign messages to support pictorial health warning labels for little cigars and cigarillos: an online survey-based experiment.
BMJ open
Open PubMedPMID 31269935 • 2019 Jul 3
Cigar package quantity and smoking behavior.
BMC public health
Open PubMedPMID 39804647 • 2025 Jan 2
Cigar, Pipe, and Smokeless Tobacco Use and Cardiovascular Outcomes From Cross Cohort Collaboration.
JAMA network open
Open PubMedPMID 982079 • 1976 Mar
Tobacco and tobacco smoke.
Seminars in oncology
Open PubMedPMID 18815916 • 2008 Sep
Tobacco smoking and risk of bladder cancer.
Scandinavian journal of urology and nephrology. Supplementum
Open PubMedPMID 27798089 • 2018 Jan 5
Large Cigars: Smoking Topography and Toxicant Exposure.
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Open PubMedPMID 25907101 • 2015 Apr 24
Systematic review of cigar smoking and all cause and smoking related mortality.
BMC public health
Open PubMedPMID 38091563 • 2024 Jan
Tobacco 21 Laws and Youth Tobacco Use: The Role of Policy Attributes.
American journal of public health
Open PubMedPMID 37590902 • 2023 Aug 17
Changes in Sales of Tobacco and Nicotine Replacement Therapy Products Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Preventing chronic disease
Open PubMedPMID 40054832 • 2025 Jun
Assessment of toxicity associated with inhalation of potentially toxic elements present in combustible tobacco products: cigars, pipe tobacco, bidis and cigarettes - An evaluation of risk assessment issues.
Toxicology
Open PubMedPMID 15995804 • 2005 Jul
Cigar smoking: an ignored public health threat.
The journal of primary prevention
Open PubMedPMID 40795915 • 2025 Aug 1
National longitudinal risk of tobacco use among youth and young adults in US local jurisdictions with and without flavor and comprehensive smoke-free policies, 2014-2019.
Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs
Open PubMedPMID 33557674 • 2021
Tobacco Smoking and Smokeless Tobacco Use among Domestic and International Medical Students in Hungary.
Substance use & misuse
Open PubMedPMID 33849776 • 2021 Jul
Youth Exposure to Warnings on Cigar, E-Cigarette, and Waterpipe Tobacco Packages.
American journal of preventive medicine
Open PubMedPMID 28003508 • 2018 Feb 7
Cigar Product Modification Among High School Youth.
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Open PubMedPMID 33507272 • 2021 Aug 4
Experts' Perceptions of and Suggestions for Cigar Warning Label Messages and Pictorials.
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Open PubMedPMID 30329102 • 2019 Feb 18
Tobacco Advertisement Liking, Vulnerability Factors, and Tobacco Use Among Young Adults.
Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco
Open PubMedPMID 32874086 • 2020 May
Retrospective Policy Analysis of Tobacco Prevention and Control in Ethiopia.
Ethiopian journal of health sciences
Open PubMedPMID 33482429 • 2021 May
Exposure to cigar Point-of-Sale marketing and use of cigars and cigarettes among young adults.
Addictive behaviors
Open PubMedFallback search fetch failed: Failed to fetch after retries: https://old.reddit.com/search.json?raw_json=1&sort=relevance&t=year&limit=12&q=cigar%20smoking
Community Sources
PUBMED • 2018 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 27798089 from Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2018 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 28003508 from Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2022 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 35816331 from JAMA pediatrics.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2017 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 27122063 from Tobacco control.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2025 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 40815515 from JAMA network open.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2023 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 37347538 from Journal of medical Internet research.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2024 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 36424139 from Tobacco control.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2025 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 40523793 from BMJ open.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2025 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 39804647 from JAMA network open.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 1976 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 982079 from Seminars in oncology.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2008 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 18815916 from Scandinavian journal of urology and nephrology. Supplementum.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2015 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 25907101 from BMC public health.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2024 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 38091563 from American journal of public health.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2023 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 37590902 from Preventing chronic disease.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2025 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 40054832 from Toxicology.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2005 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 15995804 from The journal of primary prevention.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2025 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 40795915 from Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Monographs.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2021 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 33557674 from Substance use & misuse.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2021 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 33849776 from American journal of preventive medicine.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2021 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 33507272 from Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2019 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 30329102 from Nicotine & tobacco research : official journal of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2020 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 32874086 from Ethiopian journal of health sciences.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open sourcePUBMED • 2021 • Human evidence curation set
PMID 33482429 from Addictive behaviors.
Outcome: See linked PubMed abstract for methods and outcomes.[1341,1353,1418, etc.]
Open source