KMEG CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley October 26, 2015
Placed in the same category of tobacco. This has lead to so much confusion, being in the highest risk category means you have a substance and there is good, strong evidence that it can cause cancer. It says absolutely nothing about the degree to which it increases that risk. So we know smoking tobacco increases the risk of cancer dramically. Now processed meat increases the risk of colon cancer relatively less. Still, 20 increase if you have the equivalent of a hot dog every day. So now that we have these numbers which is the new thing this study is giving us, it can give us an idea how to est...