Surgeon general calls for cancer warning labels on alcohol

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I think the science is there. I wonder if alcohol will be like smoking in 20 or 30 years. Lots of people used to smoke multiple packs a day when I was growing up and that has fallen off a cliff.

Per capita alcohol consumption has been increasing slowly but steadily since about 2000 with a major jump around covid, but I could see a major decline if the risks are high.

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Surgeon General calls for cancer risk warning on beverages with alcohol

Dr. Vivek Murthy issued an advisory Friday about alcohol and cancer risk and called for changes to beverage warning labels.
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I don’t think alcohol will be like smoking has become for a number reasons, among them: (1) there is a different culture around consuming alcohol than there is/was with smoking; (2) there is no second-hand impact of alcohol consumption like there is with smoking; and (3) it doesn’t have the strong, lingering smell to the extent that smoking does, which can bother people significantly. But I would not be surprised to see fewer people drink, or to see people drink less. I don’t know what health impacts those THC-infused drinks have, but maybe they’re the wave of the future.
 
People have craved the altered sense of awareness that alcohol provides since that first caveman drank naturally fermented mead honey water out of a tree trunk and caught a buzz. There's a reason Prohibition didn't work out. It will never diminish to the extent that smoking has, imo.. there's a strong genetic predisposition at work also.
 
Overall drinking is going to taper down because young people aren't drinking as commonly. Those young folks who do drink are also drinking less frequently and less to excess.

It's the 55 and up group that are floating the liquor boat right now.

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Young Adults in U.S. Drinking Less Than in Prior Decades

Adults aged 18 to 34 are less likely to say they drink alcohol than were young adults in prior decades, while drinking is up among those 55 and older.
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wmheel1287 said:
Overall drinking is going to taper down because young people aren't drinking as commonly. Those young folks who do drink are also drinking less frequently and less to excess.

It's the 55 and up group that are floating the liquor boat right now.

news.gallup.com

Young Adults in U.S. Drinking Less Than in Prior Decades

Adults aged 18 to 34 are less likely to say they drink alcohol than were young adults in prior decades, while drinking is up among those 55 and older.
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Came here to say this. I’ve stopped drinking almost entirely. I’ll drink socially for holidays or whatnot, but I think most younger people’s vice of choice is something other than drinking.
 
Paine said:
Came here to say this. I’ve stopped drinking almost entirely. I’ll drink socially for holidays or whatnot, but I think most younger people’s vice of choice is something other than drinking.
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I don’t think that’s new. I preferred other ways of getting a buzz when I was your age. But as I got older I gradually came to prefer an alcohol buzz to weed. Now if I could obtain opioids or cocaine that I knew didn’t contain fentanyl I might be tempted on occasion, but weed whether smoked or edible, just no longer interests me. It’s no longer my preferred high.
 
I still drink a little but only average a drink or so a month.

Fortunately, I always liked weed better, anyway. That's especially true with the concentrates you can get now. I got some THCA diamonds that were over 99% pure. A little of that on top of a bowl will give you a nice buzz.
 
If alcohol contributes to throat cancer, is it the percentage of alcohol in the beverage or is it any alcohol?

Does a 5% alcohol beer contribute as much to cancer as 13% alcohol wine or 80 proof (40% alcohol) whiskey?
 
I think it was in part the strength and in part the amount. Since I drank about a half pint of 100 proof bourbon on the rocks most nights, it seemed irrelevant to investigate.
 
The numbers I saw on the subject didn't seem to amount to much at first glance. 20K supposed alcohol related cancer deaths out of the million+ deaths in the U.S. each year. And no info on how many of those are legit alcoholics as opposed to people blowing off steam with 4-6 drinks a night who might meet a technical medical definition.
 
Zoo_View said:
If alcohol contributes to throat cancer, is it the percentage of alcohol in the beverage or is it any alcohol?

Does a 5% alcohol beer contribute as much to cancer as 13% alcohol wine or 80 proof (40% alcohol) whiskey?
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My anecdotal experience suggests hard stuff is worse. That burn you feel as it goes down isnt restorative.
 
While some people are saying young people aren’t drinking as much anymore, if I walk around the South End neighborhood of Charlotte or into one of the bars there on a weekend, it suggests otherwise.
 
LosPollosHermanos said:
The numbers I saw on the subject didn't seem to amount to much at first glance. 20K supposed alcohol related cancer deaths out of the million+ deaths in the U.S. each year. And no info on how many of those are legit alcoholics as opposed to people blowing off steam with 4-6 drinks a night who might meet a technical medical definition.
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4-6 drinks a night?
 
In a a dry month now but I usually drink 4-6 and I ain't never been to one of those meetings.....
 
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