Posted on 01/03/2025 7:16:06 AM PST by Salman
Alcohol is a leading preventable cause of cancer, and alcoholic beverages should carry a warning label as packs of cigarettes do, the U.S. surgeon general said on Friday.
It is the latest salvo in a fierce debate about the risks and benefits of moderate drinking as the influential U.S. Dietary Guidelines for Americans are about to be updated. For decades, moderate drinking was said to help prevent heart attacks and strokes.
That perception has been embedded in the dietary advice given to Americans. But growing research has linked drinking, sometimes even within the recommended limits, to various types of cancer.
Labels currently affixed to bottles and cans of alcoholic beverages warn about drinking while pregnant or before driving and operating other machinery, and about general “health risks.”
But alcohol directly contributes to 100,000 cancer cases and 20,000 related deaths each year, the surgeon general, Dr. Vivek Murthy, said.
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I doubt such a warning will have any substantial effect on alcohol consumption. However, sounds like a prelude for states suing the alcohol companies just like they did the tobacco companies.
I guess lib Dr.’s have nothing better to do and no other pressing health issues to research.
And how much longer does the Surgeon General serve?
I don't doubt that for a minute. Waiting for the "second-hand alcohol exposure" threat to become a thing by which to sue.
Is this the same surgeon general who says that genital mutilation is a safe and effective treatment for socialization issues?
Latest archeological data found evidence of fermentation of beer from 13,000 years ago.
Just try to stop us
The Surgeon General is an insane male who thinks he’s a woman.
Like the tobacco companies.
I’ve been waiting for that. It’s really only a matter of time before the prohibitionist “Karens” come after booze.
No smoking, no drinking, no food with flavor. They take the fun out of life everyway they can.
That plus the all to install AI cameras nationwide to spot anybody suspected of driving impaired, but really just to further spy on every American.
The surveillance state is already here, but now they're going to give it to us good and hard.
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Visiting California can give you cancer too. Warning labels are everywhere. I don’t know why dummy tourists visit that joint.
Maybe they should just ban alcohol I mean it worked so well the first time
Maybe expand the program. or we could put up our own signs.
GOVERNMENT MAY BE HARMFUL TO YOUR LIFE LIBERTY AND PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS.
Well, I’ve given up smoking, I’ve given up drinking, if they they come out next and declare sex causes cancer, it’s bullet in the head time.
Alcohol has been consumed for thousands of years. There is no need for government warnings. Unless you want to say that it is associated with longer life and cures many illnesses.
Of course Alcohol can be abused but so can food.
Two Weeks.
If that was such a big deal, wouldn’t he have suggested that long ago? Has been in office since March of 2021.
Worthless virtue signaling right before he gets Trumped.
So many lifelong alcoholics dying ofcancer. Lol
Vivek Murthy is the SG. Reminds me of the song Rebel Rebel by Bowie…”can’t tell if you’re a boy or a girl”
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