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Dr. Vivek Murthy, the US surgeon general, released a report warning that alcohol can cause cancer. It's the third leading preventable cause of cancer in the US, after tobacco and obesity, he said.
From 1999 to 2020, the number of alcohol-related deaths has nearly doubled, according to Florida Atlantic University study. A researcher and addiction specialists discuss the risk factors.
The CDC found alcohol-induced deaths jumped 26% between 2019 and 2020, killing more than 49,000 people during the first year of the pandemic. Alcoholic liver disease was the leading cause of ...
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The World Health Organization estimates that tobacco caused 8 million deaths in 2004 [17] and 100 million deaths over the course of the 20th century. [116] Similarly, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describes tobacco use as "the single most important preventable risk to human health in developed countries and an ...
[57] The study used 43,802 deaths linked to alcohol or tobacco but only 5475 other deaths as controls. [57] Further studies have confirmed that heavy drinking and smoking are the main cause of high death rates in Russia as of 2014. [56] The high consumption of vodka in the context of binge drinking is a significant factor. [58]
Of all deaths that could be traced to alcohol in 2019, the report found that an estimated 1.6 million were from noncommunicable diseases, including 474,000 deaths from cardiovascular diseases and ...
Alcoholic drinks should come with a cancer warning label after being linked to 20,000 deaths in the US each year, says U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy. A new advisory released by the ...