Well, the Canadians have ‘stepped up’ in the now well-established Alcohol and Cancer correlation and causation.
The cancer connection with alcohol had been ‘lurking’ for many years, but in the last four or so years, it has been undeniably established. Canada is just the most recent place that the bold declarations have been made in the Public Health arena. (one must wonder though, if this profiling isn’t in some way an attempt to get eyes off the cannabis crisis and growing harms – but one can only speculate.)
For example in 2018 after reviewing data and research as far back as 2016, The Lancet sent a ‘shot across the bow’ of the alcohol industry declaring that For Your Health, No Amount of Alcohol Is Safe and it was a harbinger of looming data that cancer appears to be a risk factor.
In 2017 Australian research and analysis found more than a correlation between alcohol consumption and various cancers Alcohol consumption and liver, pancreatic, head and neck cancers in Australia: 2017
A significant Japanese study of large cohort was released in 2019 making the disturbing claim that, Drinking just ONE glass of wine or pint of beer each night 'may raise your cancer risk by 5%' as scientists warn the safest amount of alcohol is NONE
2021 saw the World Health Organisation Chime in with their findings, unabashedly starting causal links with Cancer, Alcohol is one of the biggest risk factors for breast cancer (W.H.O)
Canadian Health experts and researchers are now lobbying their policy makers and politicians to have ‘cancer warning’ labels on all alcohol, such is the concern over this Class one carcinogen.
It’s time all jurisdictions adopted this measure, not just for the Cancer issue, but F.A.S.D and other diseases caused by this legal substance.
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