Cigar lovers should be able to enjoy indoors

Let’s call tobacco smokers for what they are: addicts [“Let afficionados enjoy their stogies,” Opinion, Aug. 16].
This addiction has real consequences with more than 443,000 Americans (more than 18 percent of all deaths) who die each year due to smoking. Between 33 and 50 percent of all smokers will die an average of 15 years sooner than nonsmokers. Smoking also steals 10 years of physical functioning in old age, and causes more death and disability than any single disease. Ream more »








