>>2844854>is this true, or is this cope?It's true.
https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/nn/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-101584932X202-docChapter 8, page 112. That's the chapter on mortality, and it has lots and lots of tables. iirc the mortality for pipe smokers was 1.01 for non-inhalers, compared with cigarette smokers' mortality of 1.5 - 1.7.
Later surgeon general's reports solved this bit of inconvenience by lumping all types of smoking in together.
