Does drinking 1 bottle of wine a week raise cancer risk as much as 10 cigarettes? A new study says yes:
Drinking one 750-milliliter bottle of wine a week is associated with the same lifetime cancer risk as smoking five cigarettes a week for men, and 10 cigarettes for women, according to a new study published Thursday in the journal BMC Public Health.
They analyzed data from Cancer Research U.K. on the lifetime risk of cancer in the general population, as well as data on the number of cancers in the population that could be linked to tobacco and alcohol in particular.
“Alcohol is a known carcinogen. This study highlights the risk associated with alcohol consumption,” Dr. Sarah Cate, assistant professor of breast surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai told MarketWatch. “It is difficult to extrapolate the exact risk because the study did not examine known risk factors for cancer such as family history of cancers and other carcinogens such as external radiation exposure,” she added.
The new report also wanted to be “absolutely clear that this study is not saying that drinking alcohol in moderation is in any way equivalent to smoking,” as smoking kills up to two-thirds of its users, and is responsible for 80% of all deaths from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease . “Our finds relate to lifetime risk across the population,” Hydes said.
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