The U.S. Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, has issued an advisory recommending that alcoholic beverages carry labels warning consumers about the increased cancer risks associated with their consumption. The advisory also calls for a reassessment of alcohol consumption guidelines to include cancer risk alongside existing warnings about birth defects and impaired operation of machinery.
Alcohol ic drinks should carry a label warning consumers about their cancer risks, the U.S. Surgeon-General said in an advisory on Friday, noting that their consumption increases the risk of developing breast, colon, liver and other cancers.
U.S. Surgeon-General Vivek Murthy also called for the guidelines on alcohol consumption limits to be reassessed so that people can weigh the cancer risk when deciding whether or how much to drink, alongside current warnings on birth defects and impairments when operating machinery. “Alcohol consumption is the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the United States, after tobacco and obesity, increasing risk for at least seven types of cancer,” Murthy’s office said in a statement accompanying the new report.
It is responsible for 100,000 U.S. cancer cases and 20,000 cancer deaths each year, more than the 13,500 alcohol-associated traffic crash deaths, it added. “The direct link between alcohol consumption and cancer risk is well-established for at least seven types of cancer … regardless of the type of alcohol that is consumed,” the statement said, including cancers of the esophagus, mouth, throat and voice box.
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