Obesity overtakes smoking as cause of four major cancers

Cancer Research UK has urged the Government to take action to tackle obesity after new research shows that people who are obese now outnumber people who smoke two to one in the UK, and excess weight causes more cases of certain cancers than smoking. The analysis revealed that being overweight or obese is now the leading cause of four different types of cancer and almost a third of UK adults are obese.   Smoking is still the nation’s biggest preventable cause of cancer and carries a much higher risk of the disease than obesity, but excess weight causes around 1,900 more cases of bowel