Health
US Surgeon General Calls for Cancer Warnings on Alcohol
- Fewer than half of Americans are aware of increased risk
- Consumption guidelines should be reassessed, advisory says
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Alcoholic drinks like beer and wine should carry warnings of their links to cancer, the US’s top doctor said, citing a lack of public awareness of the popular products’ health risks.
Evidence of links between drinking and cancer has been rising for decades, yet less than half of Americans recognize that it raises their chances of developing several cancers, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said Friday in an advisory.