Breaking: Alcohol abuse may not be good for you

A FRESH analysis of cancer rates in Australia suggests alcohol is to blame for many more cases than previously thought. 
 
With 5.6 per cent or 5663 cancers a year likely to be triggered by regular drinking even at moderate levels.

More than 2600 breast cancers - or more than one in five of total cases - nearly 1300 cancers of the mouth and nearly 600 cancers of the oesophagus a year are now thought to be due to patients' drinking habits.

The upward revisions appear in a new position statement on alcohol today by Cancer Council Australia, which warned there was no safe level of alcohol intake, and that the estimates provided another reason for Australians to stay within official healthy drinking guidelines

Source:  Alcohol blamed for cancers (The Australian)


And at the risk of sounding like a freedom hating Democrat, tax away at alcohol and tobacco.