cancers

For a more fair comparison you would have to sum together the cancers it is linked to, then factor the number of deaths of those cancers that were smoking-related.

Right, and as the article linked to above points out, they are at increased risk of various cancers.

Also, the cancers you refer to are not specific to meat, they're specific to cooked (moreso charred) food.

In South Korea, widespread ultrasound screening has led to a fifteen-fold increase in detection of small thyroid cancers.

Cancer treatment is phenomenally effective for some cancers, for some classes of patients, and ineffective for others.

Liver cancer is one of the worst cancers--strike worst cancer; they are all bad.

Cancer is the #1 cause of premature deaths - although that's including all 200 odd sum of cancers, not all smoking related.

Certainly neoreaction is a cancer, but the best cure for these cancers is sunlight.

We absolutely have detected more (asymptomatic) cancers with increased screening of healthy people.

Keep in mind that there are health conditions that can kill seemingly healthy young adults instantly - aneurisms, heart attacks, brain cancers, and others.

I think that's where we're going to make a lot of progress in developing actual cures for a number of cancers.

Deaths per KW or cancers per KW is not really very relevant, because the risks associated with our current nuclear regime will persist for centuries.

In my defense: "Melanin helps protect the skin against effects of the sun such as skin cancers and premature aging.

The increased cancers and infant mortality after Three Mile Island are either waved away or "not directly caused by an accident".