No. Despite what you might have heard, cigar smoking isn't safer than cigarette smoking â even if you don't intentionally inhale the smoke. Like cigarette smoking, cigar smoking poses serious health risks, including: 1  Cancer. 2  All tobacco smoke contains chemicals that can cause cancer, and cigar smoke is no exception.
Autosomal recessive: cystic fibrosis (CF), sickle cell anemia (SC), Tay Sachs disease. Genes are inherited from our biological parents in specific ways. One of the basic patterns of inheritance of our genes is called autosomal recessive inheritance.
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is caused by an inherited gene mutation (change). Testing for the CF gene is recommended for anyone who has a family member with the disease, or whose partner is a known carrier of CF or affected with CF.