{"id":1207,"date":"2015-10-26T23:02:36","date_gmt":"2015-10-26T23:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/?p=1207"},"modified":"2015-10-26T23:03:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-26T23:03:28","slug":"the-problem-with-comparing-meat-and-smoking-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/2015\/10\/26\/the-problem-with-comparing-meat-and-smoking-cancer-risk\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem with comparing meat and smoking cancer risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/sifting-the-evidence\/2015\/oct\/26\/meat-and-tobacco-the-difference-between-risk-and-strength-of-evidence\">The Guardian reports:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Comparing meat to tobacco, as most news organisations who\u2019ve chosen to report this have done, makes it seem like a bacon sandwich might be just as harmful as a cigarette. This is absolutely not the case.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cancerresearchuk.org\/health-professional\/cancer-statistics\">Cancer Research UK<\/a> infographic elegantly shows that while the evidence that processed meat causes cancer is as strong as for tobacco, the RISK from smoking is so much higher:<\/p>\n<p>(click to enlarge image)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/files\/2015\/10\/infograph.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-1209 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/files\/2015\/10\/infograph-235x300.png\" alt=\"infograph\" width=\"310\" height=\"395\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Guardian reports: Comparing meat to tobacco, as most news organisations who\u2019ve chosen to report this have done, makes it seem like a bacon sandwich might be just as harmful as a cigarette. This is absolutely not the case. &nbsp; This Cancer Research UK infographic elegantly shows that while the evidence that processed meat causes [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/2015\/10\/26\/the-problem-with-comparing-meat-and-smoking-cancer-risk\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2156,567],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-warnings","category-who"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stg-blogs.bmj.com\/tc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}