US Surgeon General Calls for Cancer Warnings on Alcohol (4)

Alcoholic drinks like beer and wine should carry warnings of their links to cancer, the US’s top doctor said, citing a lack of public awareness of the popular products’ health risks.

Evidence of links between drinking and cancer has been rising for decades, yet less than half of Americans recognize that it raises their chances of developing several cancers, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy said Friday in an advisory.

Alcohol causes about 100,000 cases of cancer and 20,000 related deaths each year in the US, Murthy said, far more than the 13,500 alcohol-associated annual traffic fatalities. Adding a cancer warning ...