>>1461649>pipe smoking is guaranteed cancerNot according to the Surgeon General it isn’t.
From the landmark 1964 study linking cigarette smoking and cancer:
> For current pipe smokers (Table 5), men smoking less than 10 pipefuls per day have death rates very close to those of non-smokers. >For heavy pipe smokers (10 or more per day) two studies show increases of 15 and 12 per-cent in death rates, but the other two studies show little or no increase. >The over-all mortality ratio of 1.05 does not differ statistically from unity. (Page 86, Page 93 on PDF)
https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/ps/access/NNBBMQ.pdfSo 5% greater cancer risk for for pipe smokers that consume more than 10 bowls per day, and unmeasurably small incidence rates in light smokers.
That’s safer than sunbathing.