My wife has grudgingly accepted my 1-3 per week ritual (yes, not much compared to some of you silverbacks!), and I just found a great site that has some good reassuring info for limited smokers:
http://www.cigardiary.com/health.php3
Apologies if you all have seen this already. My suggestion: for the light smoker ==> use these numbers to prove your innocence. For the heavy smoker ==> ignore these stats since any studies are probably all crap anyway and we should all live by the "if it feels good...DO IT" rule which will likely extend lives in the long run!
:w
http://www.cigardiary.com/health.php3
Apologies if you all have seen this already. My suggestion: for the light smoker ==> use these numbers to prove your innocence. For the heavy smoker ==> ignore these stats since any studies are probably all crap anyway and we should all live by the "if it feels good...DO IT" rule which will likely extend lives in the long run!
:w