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by onli 610 days ago
Does not seem to be true. See https://news.cancerresearchuk.org/2012/08/15/is-being-inacti...
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Doesn’t mention how much smoking is worse.
Not with clear numbers, but with clear qualifiers:

> But to an individual, inactivity is certainly _not_ worse than smoking.

> Being inactive increases the risk of a number of diseases, including a several types of cancer. Smoking _massively_ increases the risk of over a dozen types of cancer, as well as causing emphysema, heart disease, stroke and other diseases.