A few beginner questions

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While pipe smoking can result in cancer, I ll be damned if I know any pipe smokers who got cancer from pipe smoking. Yes, it can happen. But casual pipe smoking without inhaling might as well scare you as much as any California Prop 65 warning.

 

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Almost all air fryers have Prop 65 warnings in California. In fact, so do all restaurants, cars, etc.

 

[SmokingInTheWind]

While pipe smoking can result in cancer, I ll be damned if I know any pipe smokers who got cancer from pipe smoking. Yes, it can happen. But casual pipe smoking without inhaling might as well scare you as much as any California Prop 65 warning.

I only know of one pipe smoker that developed cancer. My mother's brother smoked a pipe heavily for about 50 years. I rarely saw him without a bulldog briar in his mouth. It was part of him. When I picture him in my head it always includes the pipe. He succumbed to mouth/jaw cancer at age 73. I think he started smoking a pipe at age 18 when he started college in the mid fifties. I started smoking a pipe after he died, and I occasionally think about what he went through. I rationalize my choice to smoke a pipe by the fact that I started at age 56 and only smoke about 15 bowls a week. Time will tell.