# Pipe tobacco and tar

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pipe-tobacco-and-tar/251722>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 22, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pipe-tobacco-and-tar/251722 "2004-06-22T23:39:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pipe-tobacco-and-tar/251722/1 "2004-06-22T23:39:04Z")

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Often advertisements list how much milligrams of tar and nicotine is present per cigarette by FTC method (?)

How much in the average bowlful of pipe tobacco?  
Per Cigar?

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**Author:** ![commasense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/commasense/32/3017_2.png) [@commasense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/commasense)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2004, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pipe-tobacco-and-tar/251722/2 "2004-06-22T23:57:01Z")

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Don’t know the answer, but whatever it is, the effect is usually lower, because many, if not most, pipe and cigar smokers (including this one) don’t inhale the smoke into their lungs.