U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy
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first heard Jan 2025
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There is a causal link between alcohol and seven types of cancer, including breast cancer and colon cancer. That's U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy talking on CNN. What we also found is that alcohol is now the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the United States behind smoking and obesity.
What is also clear is that the majority of Americans do not know about this link between alcohol and cancer. And it's one of the reasons, one of the many things I'm calling for in addition to more public education around this is for the warning label on alcohol containers to be updated to include cancer risk
It's also worth keeping in mind that in 1964, when the Surgeon General issued the first report on tobacco and its relationship to cancer, the very next year Congress passed legislation calling for and placing a warning label on cigarette boxes. So we have an opportunity to take that kind of action here as well.
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