According to a study that has just been released by Cancer Research UK obesity now causes more cases of four common cancers in the UK than smoking.
Despite that, Smoking remains the UK’s leading preventable cause of cancer overall. Obesity ranks second, says Cancer Research UK.
The report says that bowel, kidney, ovarian and liver cancers are more likely to have been caused by being overweight than by smoking tobacco.
It says millions are at risk of cancer because of their weight and that obese people outnumber smokers two to one.
Cancer Research UK says it is not about blaming people for being overweight.
Nor is it suggesting that smoking and obesity are directly comparable in terms of cancer risk. Both increase a person’s risk.
Via Cancer Research UK/BBC
