SCIENCE IN PUBLIC

          According to Cancer Research UK, it has been shown that meat and tobacco do both cause cancer. The image to the left explains that yes infact tobacco and meat cause cancer. However, the huge distinction here is that the risk from tobacco is much higher than the risk created from eating meat. The advertisement uses so few words that it does not have to explain itself. In the grand scheme of things they are technically right. 

          However, is it even realistic to compare smoking to eating meat?Technically couldn't you say "Like smoking, exposing yourself to nuclear reactors increases the risk of cancer. Stop nuclear research." Today almost anything and everything causes cancer and PETA could have inserted anything in their statement and it would still probably hold true. But it wouldn't hit the purpose of their message. They don't care what they compare meat to. They just want people to be scared to eat meat and in result go vegan. 

          The main argument toward comparing smoking to eating meat is that smoking adds nothing to your health. In fact it only takes away. Even in moderation it is extremely unhealthy, addictive, and a terrible habit. On the other hand, meat is important to your health in the way that it provides nutrients and protein that most other foods would not provide otherwise. It is healthy until it is abused. 

          I think that comparing smoking and meat is irrelavent because they are fundamentally two completley different things.