Smoking, alcohol and high BMI are leading risk factors for global cancer deaths

Re:Smoking, alcohol and high BMI are leading risk factors fo... by galangalalgol on Friday August 19, 2022 @10:46AM (#32521654)

Agreed, I didn't even know it was a carcinogen until this year. I'm really old. Growing up it was always about it causing brain damage, no one mentioned it raised your cancer risks to such a degree. Can we make the "may cause health problems" warning made a bit more specific perhaps?

The education on alcohol could be a lot better and it shouldn't be hard. Obesity is a much harder problem to solve and I suspect we don't know all the reasons it is on the rise yet.

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Re:Smoking, alcohol and high BMI are leading risk factors fo... by TaupeRanger on Friday August 19, 2022 @11:28AM (#32522198)

> no one mentioned it raised your cancer risks to such a degree

That's because it doesn't. For the kind of light social/dinner drinking most people do, there is absolutely no evidence whatsoever that it increases your cancer risk (on the contrary, there is some evidence of protective benefits, but epidemiological studies on diet are always full of confounders, so who knows). The reason it appears on lists like these is that alcohol abuse is quite common and leads to liver cancer, among other things, and is associated with other unhealthy choices.

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Re:Smoking, alcohol and high BMI are leading risk factors fo... by cantSpellSober on Friday August 19, 2022 @01:12PM (#32523632)

Not according to emerging research. Long term abuse is linked to liver cancer, but even light and moderate alcohol use generally increases the risks of other types of cancers (and diseases) too.

https://www.wcrf.org/diet-activity-and-cancer/risk-factors/a...

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