Saturday, January 04, 2025

US Surgeon General Sounds Alarm About Link Between Alcohol and Cancer

US Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an advisory Friday warning Americans that alcohol consumption can increase their cancer risk and called for an updated health warning label on alcoholic beverages.

Posted by retort at 04:24 PM | 9 COMMENTS | permalink

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Seven years ago, @smencimer.bsky.social investigated the link between alcohol and breast cancer--and how the industry was hiding the link. Today the surgeon general issued a warning about it.

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-- Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) January 3, 2025 at 11:42 AM

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Alcohol increases the risk of five Cancers.

Bowel, bladder, colorectal, breast and prostate.

This is Old News. Alcohol is Unhealthy, at any Dose in any Form.

#1 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-01-04 04:47 PM

Civilization exists because of alcohol.

Everything causes cancer. Just ask California.

The Sturgeon Generalissimo needs to STFU.

#2 | Posted by DarkVader at 2025-01-04 06:15 PM

Alcohol is a poison after all. But it also makes you forget.

So though it may give you cancer. It makes you forget that you have cancer.

"Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems"
-Homer Simpson

#3 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-04 06:45 PM

Out of wine, there's truth,
and in truth, the vision clears,
and when the vision clears
you see a Grand Design.

When you see a Grand Design,
you can understand the world;
and when you understand the world,
you need a lot more wine!

--Stephen Sondheim--

#4 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-01-04 07:34 PM

The world is a vampire
Despite all my rage, I am still just a rat in a cage

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-04 08:59 PM

God how I hate Billy Corrigan.

Anyway, the water of life is still whiskey/whisky.

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-01-04 09:28 PM

"Alcohol is Unhealthy, at any Dose in any Form."

Oooooo.

Do bacon next!

#7 | Posted by Angrydad at 2025-01-04 10:18 PM

From the cited article ...

... Alcohol is the third-leading preventable cause of cancer in the US, the new advisory says, after tobacco and obesity. ...

interesting.

Adult Obesity Prevalence Maps
www.cdc.gov

#8 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-01-04 10:38 PM

"When your heart is sick, your liver is just around the corner."

#9 | Posted by Dbt2 at 2025-01-04 11:16 PM

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